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The condition of East Tennessee had, from the out- 
break of the war, excited much interest in the loyal 
States. It has sometimes been called the Switzerland 
of North America, and certainly no part of the conti- 
nent had higher claims to the name of " the happy 
valley." Its fame had crossed the Atlantic. More 
than twenty years ago, an English gentleman, who 
had lived several years in East Tennessee, published a 
pamphlet in London, in which he expresses himself in 
the following glowing terms : — 

" To one who has resided some years in the valley of East Ten- 
nessee, breathing the pure air from its mountains, and drinking of its 
crystal springs, enjoying the sunny smile of its temperature and the 
cooling shade of its noble forests, delighting the eye and the heart with 
its fields of fruitfulness, which at every turn present a new aspect, it 
is not ' England's laughing meads,' nor ' her flowering orchard trees,' 
nor yet Lomond and the Trosachs, with all their beauty and histor- 
ical associations, and the magic thrown around them by the exuberant 
imagination of the poet, that could tempt him again to quit the peace- 
ful solitude, the clear blue sky, the song of the mocking-bird, the note 
of the dove, the hum of the humming-bird, and the silence of nature 
where all is echo." ^ 

1 A brief Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive Review of East Tennessee, 
developing its immense Agricultural, Mining, and Manufacturing Advau' 
tages. By J. Gray Smith, a naturalized citizen of the United States. Lon- 
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Some further description of the natural features of 
this favored region will be found in the following 
pages. It is sufficient to observe here, that it was 
inhabited before the commencement of the war by a 
substantial population of about 300,000, employed 
chiefly in agriculture, and for the most part cultivating 
farms of moderate size. Although surrounded on all 
sides by slaveholding States, and conterminous with 
those in which the slaves stand in the largest propor- 
tion to the free population, less than ten per cent, of 
the entire population of East Tennessee are slaves. It 
is no doubt in a considerable degree owing to this cause, 
that the great majority of the people have adhered to 
the Union, under circumstances of unexampled trial, 
from the commencement of the war avowedly levied 
by the South for the protection, perpetuation, and ex- 
tension of slavery. 

By their loyalty to the Constitution and Union, the 
people of East Tennessee were immediately marked 
out as the victims of the most cruel persecution, on 
the part of the leaders of the Rebellion. Although 
the oppression of the Southern minority by the North- 
ern numerical majority had for many years been the 
favorite topic of the agitators in the slaveholding 
States, no respect was anywhere paid to the rights of 
the loyal minority opposed to secession, although in 
East Tennessee they amounted to six-sevenths of the 
local population. Mr. Calhoun spent the last half of his 
life in contriving organic arrangements, by which a 
minority should possess a veto on the measures of the 
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arms, the Unionists throughout the South became the 
victims of unrelenting proscription. Mr. Senator Ma- 
son, of Virginia, in a letter addressed by him to the 
editor of a public journal, declared that those who did 
not choose to vote for the ordinance of Secession, — 
obtained as it was in secret conclave by surprise, in- 
timidation, and fraud, — must expatriate themselves ; 
and plainly intimated that troops had already been 
sent from'the Gulf States to compel them to do so. 
This sentence of banishment, for refusing to commit 
treason, was denounced against a third part of the 
population of Virginia. A correspondence which took 
place at the close of 1863, between Mr. Jefferson Davis 
and the Governor of North Carolina, has been recently 
brought to light, in which the Governor is rebuked 
for even wishing to conciliate the Unionists of that 
State, who are denounced as traitors by Mr. Davis, 
and threatened with punishment as such. The friends 
of the Union in all the Border States, constituting a 
great majority of the people, instead of being left 
undisturbed in their loyalty, or even permitted to 
enjoy in peace their rights as a minority dissenting 
from the policy of the slaveholding States, have been, 
over and over again, invaded by the armies of the 
South, their towns and cities sacked, their property 
plundered and destroyed, and theh young men forced 
into the ranks of the enemy. 

But nowhere have the rights of a dissenting minor- 
ity been so flagrantly violated as in East Tennessee, 
whose inhabitants, owing to the isolated position of the 
valley, were for two long years beyond the reach of 
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the protecting arm of the General Government. The 
treatment to which they have been subjected will be 
more fully set forth in the following pages. It is briefly 
summed up in a memorial to Congress of their elo- 
quent champion, Colonel N. G. Taylor : * — 

" I will not say," he observes, " that they are more loyal, but I do 
declare that they have been more terribly and cruelly tested and 
tried than any other of our people. In 1861, when the question 
was presented, out of a vote of little more than 40,000, they gave 
30,000 majority for the Union. Their arms and ammunition were 
seized, before they could organize, by the rebel soldiers ; and though 
the Government, which owed them protection, did not protect them, 
yet their hearts clung to the Government, and they prayed for the 
Union. Five thousand of their men have seen the inside walls of 
rebel prisons, and hundreds of them, covered with filth, devoured of 
vermin, famished with hunger, have died martyrs to their country 
there. Their property has been seized, confiscated ; their houses 
pillaged; their stock all driven off; their grain consumed, their sub- 
stance wasted, their fences burned, their fields laid waste, their farms 
devastated by friends as well as foes. The Rebels robbed them, the 
Federals devoured them, for they had short supplies, and our women 
broke their last biscuit and gave them the biggest half, out of the 
mouths of hungry children. They gave up the last horse, mule, cow, 
sheep, hog, everything they had, to the soldiers that needed them, 
because they were Union soldiers, or were plundered of them by the 
enemy. Their young men have been hunted like wild beasts, by 
soldiers, by Indians, sometimes by bloodhounds, and, when caught, 
tied two-and-two to long ropes, and driven before cavalry — thin- 
clad, barefooted, and bleeding — over frozen roads and icy creeks 
and rivers. Some have been beaten with ropes, with straps, with 
clubs. Some have been butchered, others shot down, in their own 
houses or yards, in the high road, or the field, or in the forest ; others, 
still, have been hung up by the neck to the limbs of trees, without 
judge or jury. I have heard of no single neighborhood within the 
bounds of East Tennessee, whose green sod has not drunk the blood 
of citizens murdered." 



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Such was the respect paid by the leaders of the 
RebeUion to the rights of their fellow-citizens who 
chose to adhere to the Union. Even the liberating 
army of the General Government did, at first, but 
complete the exhaustion of the devoted region, for in 
his haste to expel the enemy. General Bumside was 
compelled to move in advance of his supplies. As soon 
as a communication was open with the North, a cry 
for relief went forth from our afflicted fellow-citizens 
of East Tennessee. Colonel Taylor, of Carter County, 
who had formerly represented them in Congress, — a 
victim himself of the devastations he has so feelingly 
described, — was deputed to visit the Northern cities, 
where he was received with a sympathy due to his 
patriotic and fervid efforts, and to the cause in which 
he was engaged. A relief association was organized in 
Philadelphia, and considerable sums promptly contrib- 
uted. A like reception awaited him in Boston. An 
opportunity was afforded him of addressing the legis- 
lature, and a resolution providing for an appropriation 
of a hundred thousand dollars from the State treasury 
was introduced. In aid of this movement, a public 
meeting of the citizens of Boston was called in Fanueil 
Hall, on the 10th February, 1864, of which the follow- 
ing account is extracted from the " Daily Advertiser " 
of the next day : — 

"Fanueil Hall was crowded yesterday afternoon with 
a large audience called together by the announcement 
that Colonel Taylor, of East Tennessee, would make 
an address before the citizens of Boston, on the suffer- 
ings of the people of that region. A large number of 
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"About a quarter past four Colonel Taylor entered 
the hall, accompanied by His Excellency Governor An- 
drew, Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. J. E. Field, President 
of the Senate, Hon. A. H. Bullock, Speaker of the 
House, His Honor Mayor Lincoln, Collector Goodrich, 
Judge Thomas Russell, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Hon. 
C. G. Loring, Hon. J. Wiley Edmands, and several 
other distinguished gentlemen. Their entrance was 
the signal for enthusiastic applause by the audience. _ 

"Honorable J.Wiley Edmands called the meeting to 
order, and said that the committee, appointed for the 
purpose of considering the best method of aiding the 
people of East Tennessee, had called this meeting so 
that the citizens of Boston might have an opportunity 
of hearing about their brethren in that region. Mr. 
Edmands stated that the committee had prepared the 
following list to be nominated as officers for the meet- 
ing, and they were, on motion, elected. 

^^ President, — Hon. Edward Everett. 

" Vice-Presidents, — His Excellency Governor Andrew, 
His Honor Mayor Lincoln, Hon. J. E. Field, Hon. A. H. 
Bullock, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Hon. Charles G. Lor- 
ing, William Clafflin, Esq., Patrick Donahoe, Esq., Wil- 
liam B. Rogers, Esq., Charles B. Goodrich, Esq., James 
Lawrence, Esq., Richard F'- '\ingham, Esq., Julius 
Rockwell, Esq., Charles L. , oodbury, Esq., John M. 
Forbes, Esq. 

" Secretaries, — Colonel F. L. Lee, and Samuel Froth- 
ingham, Jr. 

"Honorable Edward Everett then stepped upon the 
platform, and spoke as follows" : — 



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SPEECH OF MR. EVERETT. 

Fellow- Citizens : — We have come together for the 
grateful purpose of tendering a most cordial welcome 
to our honored guest, Colonel N. G. Taylor, of East 
Tennessee, and the pleasing duty has devolved upon 
me of introducing him to the Union-loving men of 
Boston, assembled in Faneuil Hall. I bid him a hearty 
welcome in your name. To introduce him, however, is 
wholly superfluous. Many of you have already heard 
him, and, as a matter of course, you desire to hear him 
again ; all of you have heard of him, and, as a matter 
of course, you wish to hear from him. It is therefore 
as unnecessary, as it would be unbecoming in his pres- 
ence, to dwell upon his titles to your respectful atten- 
tion ; but in addition to all his personal claims upon 
our sympathy, you will " hear him for his cause ; " the 
cause, not simply of the Union, to which we are all 
devoted, but of faithful Union men, who, from the 
outbreak of the Rebellion, have stood at the post of 
danger ; on whom the storm of war first broke ; and 
on whom, from that day to this, it has beat with its 
wildest fury. At this distance from the seat of war, 
we hear only the far-off roar of the tempest -, but all 
its waves and billows have gone over the devoted 
region, for which our honored guest comes to plead. 

And a more interesting region, or one better entitled 
to our most active sympathy, is not to be found within 
the limits of the United States. Forming a part of the 
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State of itself, and not a small one either. It consists 
of the broad valley of the magnificent river, which 
traverses it from northeast to southwest, three hun- 
dred miles in length, and with a varying width of 
from fifty to seventy-five miles, — and of the slopes of 
the mountains, which separate it on the north from 
Kentucky, on the southwest from Middle Tennessee, 
and on the southeast from North Carolina and Geor- 
gia : — a beautiful valley, between beautiful enclosing 
hills, fertile many of them to their summits ; sparkling 
with a hundred tributaries to the noble stream which 
forms its principal feature. 

That river, fellow-citizens, is in some respects one of 
the most remarkable on the continent. Its northern 
affluents rise in the State of Virginia, but, as if to read 
a lesson of patriotism in the very face of the soil, as if 
to prop the fabric of the Union by the eternal but- 
tresses of the hills, instead of flowing to the Atlantic 
like the other rivers of Virginia, it gathers up the 
waters of its tributary streams, Holston and Clinch and 
French Broad, and connecting Virginia and the Caro- 
linas with East Tennessee, flows southward down to the 
northwestern corner of Georgia. There, after kissing 
the feet of the glorious hills of Chattanooga, instead of 
flowing to the Gulf, its seeming natural direction, it 
coquets with Northern Alabama, breaks into the Mus- 
cle Shoals, plants Decatur at their head, and Florence 
at their feet, and then sweeping back to its native 
North, traverses the entire width of Tennessee a second 
time, apparently running up hill, — for while it is flow- 
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great distance, is rolling its floods southward, — enters 
the State of Kentucky, and empties at last into the 
Ohio, fifty miles above the junction of that river with 
the Mississippi, thus binding seven States in its silver 
circuit, and connecting them all with the great cen- 
tral basin of ^ the continent. The soil of Eastern Ten- 
nessee is rich, the mountains are filled with coal and 
almost every variety of ore ; their slopes bubble with 
mineral springs ; the climate is temperate and health- 
ful ; the territgry divided into farms of a moderate 
size, for the most part tilled by frugal, industrious men, 
who own the soil, which yields them its well-earned 
abundance. Tn no part of the State are there so few 
slaves ; in none is there a more substantial popula- 
tion ; in no part of the South is the slave-interest so 
feeble. East Tennessee greatly resembles the lower 
ranges and fertile valleys of the Alps, and it has been 
often called the American Switzerland. It is divided 
into thirty counties, and its population does not, I 
think, fall short of 300,000 souls. My friend, Colonel 
Taylor, nods assent. 

But this grand valley, with the hills that enclose it, 
possesses an interest for us far beyond that which 
attaches to their geographical features, merely as such. 
It is one of the most important links in that chain of 
valley and mountain, which traverses the entire North 
American continent, from northeast to southwest, sep- 
arating the streams which flow into the Atlantic from 
those which seek the St. Lawrence, the Ohio, and the 
Mississippi. Forcing its way down into the heart of the 
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of tobacco, cotton, rice and sugar, by slave labor, this 
ridge of highlands, with the valleys embosomed in them, 
from the time you leave the State of Pennsylvania, 
begins to assume the highest political importance, in 
reference to the present stupendous -struggle. Extend- 
ing to the southwest as far as Northern Alabama, this 
noble mountain tract, and the valleys enclosed in its 
parallel and transverse ridges, is, by the character of 
its climate, soil, and natural productions, the natural 
ally of the North. Here, if nowhere elsd, we may truly 
say, with the German poet — 

" Auf den Bergen ist Freiheit ; der Hauch der Griifle 
Steigt nicht hinauf, in die reinen Liifte." 

That means — 

On the mountains is Freedom ; the breath of the vales 
Rises not up to the pure mountain gales. 

Overrun it may be by the armed forces of the Rebel- 
lion, but all the sympathies and attachments of this 
region are with the loyal States. While the aristoc- 
racy of the southeastern counties of that State were 
shouting " My Maryland," the farmers of the western 
counties in Cumberland Valley, shouted back "No, it 's 
our Maryland." Western Virginia, a portion of the 
same grand chain of mountain and valley, is as loyal 
as Massachusetts. Then comes Western North Caro- 
lina, and still more Eastern Tennessee, the home of 
our honored guest, and of as true hearted, loyal. Union- 
loving a population as there is on the continent. As 
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filled with Union sentiment. It was with the greatest 
difficulty that it was engineered into secession. As to 
East Tennessee, when an election was ordered by the 
disloyal Governor of Tennessee in that dark winter of 
February, 1861, to see if the State was willing to hold 
a convention for the purpose of seceding, there were 
7,500 votes for the convention and 34,000 (nearly five 
to one) against it. This circumstance, when the treason 
of the cotton-growing States was consummated, marked 
out East Tennessee for the peculiar vengeance of the 
leaders of the rebellion. I will not anticipate what will 
be so much better stated by our honored guest.; it is 
enough to say, that in addition to all the sufferings of 
regular warfare, the Union-loving inhabitants of East 
Tennessee have been the victims of lawless outrages 
and cruelties, of which the narrative curdles the blood. 
Leaving all further detail to him, I will only recall to 
your recollection the letter of Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, 
at that time the rebel Secretary of War, of the 25th 
November, 1861. It will be remembered that, at this 
period of the war, the Government had been unable to 
send any aid to the loyal men of East Tennessee. It 
was before the glorious days of Grant at Chattanooga, 
and Burnside at Knoxville. Thrown upon their own 
resources, they naturally sought to save themselves 
from being overrun, by destroying the bridges on the 
chief lines of communication. One would suppose 
that, under the usurped rule of men, who professed to 
go to war for self-government and State-rights, the 
people of Eastern Telmessee, if for any reason they 
thought fit to do so, had a right to burn their own 
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bridges, without asking leave of the rebel cabal at 
Richmond. But Mr. Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi 
planter, and Mr. J. P. Benjamin, a lawyer of New Or- 
leans, thought otherwise. They not only denied the 
right of the farmers of East Tennessee to burn their 
own bridges, but they undertook to outlaw the great 
majority of the population of that region, five to one 
faithful Union men, denouncing them as traitors, be- 
cause they refused to commit treason. To show you 
how the friends and neighbors of our honored guest 
have been treated, let me read you that letter of the 
New Orleans lawyer, who was under oath himself to 
support the Constitution of the United States : — 

" War Department, Richmond, Nov. 25, 1861. 

" Col. W. B. Wood : Sir, — Your report of the 20th instant is 
received, and I now proceed to give you the desired instruction in 
relation to the prisoners of war taken by you among the traitors 
of East Tennessee. 

" First. All such as can be identified in having been engaged in 
bridge-burning are to be tried summarily by drum-head court-martial, 
and, if found guilty, executed on the spot by hanging. It would 
he well to leave their bodies hanging in the vicinity of the burned 
bridges. 

" Second. All such as have not been so engaged are to be treated 
as prisoners of war, and sent, with an armed guard, to Tuscaloosa, 
Alabama, there to be kept imprisoned at the depot selected by the 
Government for prisoners of war. 

" Wherever you can discover that arms are concentrated by these 
traitors, you will send out detachments, search for and seize the arms. 
In no case is one of the men known to have been up in arms against 
the Government to be released on any pledge or oath of allegiance. 
The time for such measures is past. They are all to be treated as 
prisoners of war, and held in jail till the end of the war. 



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Such as come in voluntarily, take the oath of allegiance, and surren- 
der their arms, are sure to be treated with leniency. 

" Your vigilant execution of these orders is earnestly urged by the 
Government. 

*' Your obedient Servant, 

" J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of War. 

« Col. W. B. Wood, Knoxville, Tenn. 

" P. S. Judge Patterson, [Gov. Johnson's son-in-law,] Colonel 
Pickens, and other ringleaders of the same class, must be sent at 
once to Tuscaloosa to jail as prisoners of war." 

Such was the atrocious letter of the rebel Secretary 
of War ; such the treatment to which the Union men 
of East Tennessee have been subjected. 

But I am encroaching on the time that belongs to 
our honored guest. I will only add, fellow-citizens, 
that our brethren of East Tennessee are fighting our 
battles as well as their own, on their blood-stained soil. 
It is our cause as much as theirs in which they have 
suffered the most cruel persecution ; and however 
largely, however promptly, your relief may be ex- 
tended to them, it will come too late, I fear, to rescue 
some of them from the horrors of starvation. This 
must not be. If the Union means anything, it means 
not merely political connection and commercial inter- 
course ; but to bear each other's burdens and to share 
each other's sacrifices ; it means active sympathy and 
efficient aid. 

Colonel Taylor, on being introduced, was received 
with loud applause and hearty cheers. He addressed 
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SPEECH OF COLONEL TAYLOR. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies, Genilemen, Fellow- Oitizms: — It is 
with feelings inexpressible that I appear before you to- 
day. It is with a gratification that I cannot find words 
to express, that I see so many of Boston's fair daugh- 
ters and Boston's brave men. I am gratified, sir, at 
this assemblage and this presence, the more, when I re- 
member that this assembly is convened, and that I am 
here to address it, not in my own behalf, but in behalf 
of my country, in behalf of my people in the moun- 
tains of East Tennessee ; and I accept the presence of 
this assemblage, and the compliment thus offered, as an 
oJBfering to my people of East Tennessee ; for which, in 
their name, permit me, fellow-citizens, ladies, and gen- 
tlemen, to return you my grateful acknowledgments. 

I regret that I cannot come here to tell you that we 
of East Tennessee are happy ; that I cannot come here 
and tell you that our people are now as prosperous as 
they were wont to be ; that in their quiet and peaceful 
vales at the base of their mountains, they are pursuing 
the avocations of domestic life, in the enjoyment of all 
that the Constitution of the United States guarantees to 
all its citizens. I regret that I cannot tell you to-day, 
fellow-citizens of Boston, that this is the condition of my 
country ; but it is not my happiness to give you this 
sort of information. There is one thing, however, that 
it renders me happy to be able to tell you, and that is, 
though not blessed with the wealth that crowns you to- 
day, though not blessed with the prosperity that smiles 
all around upon your happy community, they have a 



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heart that has ever, and still constantly and devotedly 
and passionately, in every circumstance and condition 
and trial of life; beats true to the flag of our country 
and the Union of these States. 

My distinguished friend who has just addressed you 
has rendered it unnecessary for me, even if I could, to 
give you a description, geographically, of the country 
which I represent before you to-day ; for he has painted 
it with the pencil of an artist, as he is, in word-painting, 
unexcelled within the limits of our broad country. While 
he has drawn the outline of that beautiful, and lovely, 
and loyal land, he has impressed his pictures with the 
warmth, and beauty, and patriotism of his own devoted 
heart. I come to you to-day, fellow-citizens, as the rep- 
resentative of East Tennessee, not to talk to you about 
party politics, not to make arguments or appeals for 
the support or the advancement of the interests of any 
particular party or any particular man in these United 
States ; for I tell you, in all candor and truth, that such 
has been our condition, for more than two years, that 
we have had no party politics, as we used to understand 
them. It is true we have parties there, but there are 
only two. AVe once had a Democratic party, a Whig 
party, an American party, and an anti-American party ; 
but these parties have all beei* merged in the great 
questions that have divided us for the last four years, 
— I might say, for the last eight years, and we are 
divided into only two parties : the one known as the 
Union party, and the other as the Secession or Kebel 
party ; and I am glad to tell you to-day, as my illus- 
trious friend has told you in advance, that when the 
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test was applied at the ballot-box, we stood, in the 
thirty counties of East Tennessee, as thirty-four thou- 
sand to seven upon this question ; thirty-four for the 
preservation of the Union of these States, and seven 
for the dissolution of this Government. 

Neither do I come before you to-day, fellow-citizens, 
as a beggar, although I present myself somewhat in 
the semblance of one ; nor do I represent a begging, 
although a beggared people. She whose people were, 
too proud to bow the neck and receive the yoke of 
King Cotton of the South, is too proud at heart to ask 
alms at the hands of her sisters of the North. But I 
come, as the representative of a suffering and loyal 
people, reduced to extremity by reason of their devo- 
tion to our common country, to present some plain 
facts to the loyal people of the North and of the West, 
that they may have an opportunity for the extension 
of that benevolence, which opens its hand always to 
the suffering and the faithful everywhere. 

It is true, fellow-citizens, that many of our kindred 
of the South are very angry with the people of East 
Tennessee, and they hate us with great bitterness, and 
of late have done us great injury. Yet, while the re- 
membrance of this fact is a source of great pain to the 
people of East Tennessee, they are consoled by the re- 
flection that this animosity and hatred have been en- 
gendered by her devotion to the union of these States, 
by her adherence to the farewell advice of our glorious 
Washington, the Father of our country ; by her persist- 
ent refusal to take part or lot in any mad effort for 
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eminent which has always protected its citizens, which 
has never infringed a soHtary right of an individual or 
a State of this Union, from its beginning down, and 
which our people believe it to be their religious duty 
to hand down, as a priceless and inestimable heritage, 
to their children and children's children. 

But, fellow-citizens, it is not true that East Tennessee 
has ever been unfaithful to the Southern people, either 
in principle or in fact. We believed, and we declared, 
that the interests and institutions, the happiness, pros- 
perity, and rights of the-'people of the South were bound 
up with and in the Union, and that they could never 
be preserved outside of the Union. We declared ttis 
upon the rostrum, and at the hustings, everywhere, from 
Carter to Shelby, — from the eastern limit of the State 
to its western boundary upon the Mississippi River. 
History has been written, fellow-citizens, and its immu- 
table verdict is, that our judgment was right and cor- 
rect, and it has demonstrated that their's was false and 
fallacious. Let the universal prosperity that swelled 
every channel of our vitality — commercial, political, 
industrial, and social — at the beginning of the war, 
and within the Union, attest this fact; and let their 
ruined commerce, their paralyzed industry, their bank- 
rupt treasury, the dismembered families, the broken- 
hearted widows, the orphaned children, the desolated 
homes and new-made graves, without the Union, attest 
the unutterable folly of those who execrated the peo- 
ple of East Tennessee because they would not affihate 
with treason. Could those who made this war be made 
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been well indeed. Then East Tennessee would have 
escaped. But, alas ! the concentrated fury of the war 
has rolled over her innocent bosom, and she is in ruins 
to-day, having nothing left her but pride, poverty, and 
patriotism. Her people are the descendants of the 
pioneer heroes of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, 
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, with here and there 
an individual from other Northern and Southern States 
of the United States -, and, like their illustrious ances- 
try, they have never learned how to prove false to the 
Constitution and Union of the* country. The pioneer 
heroes of East Tennessee left their daughters, their 
wives and their old inen, to defend their homes against 
a savage foe, in the great war for Independence, while 
they buckled on their armor, and struck upon the 
sides of King's Mountain, under the lead of Shelby 
and Campbell, for our infant nationality. In the war 
of 1812, they fought gallantly on many a battle-field, 
and triumphed under the immortal Jackson at New 
Orleans. In 1832-33, when Nullification threatened 
with the sword to cut the gordian knot of our beloved 
Union, and when the illustrious Jackson appealed to the 
Eternal to witness that the Federal Union must be pre- 
served, a united Amen swelled in the hearts and broke 
from the lips of the people of East Tennessee, as from 
the lips of one man, and they were ready to sacrifice 
their lives in defence of the integrity of our glorious 
Government. Her stalwart sons were mingled in the 
front ranks of the Mexican war, and they poured out 
their blood freely with their fellow-citizens of other 
States at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, at Monterey and 



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Buena Vista, at Chepultepec and Cherubusco, and helped 
to swell the shout of victory as our gallant legions 
marched in triumph into the Grand Plaza of Mexico. 

Thus, fellow-citizens, in peace and in war, in the cab- 
inet and in the field, at the hustings, at the bar, and in 
the Senate, in public assemblies and private circles, in 
the homes of the rich and the cabins of the poor, the 
heart of East Tennessee beats time to the music of 
the Union. Witness the sad history of the past three 
years ! This devotion is not a mere sentiment, it is a 
passion ; nay, more, it is a principle on fire, ever burning, 
never consumed ; it is a heritage of the blood, trans- 
mitted from sire to son, imbibed with mother's milk; 
stereotyped upon the heart, and riveted in the soul. 

The first test of the Union sentiment of East Ten- 
nessee, in reference to the existing difficulties, was ap- 
plied, as has been remarked by my friend, the Chair- 
man of the meeting, in February, 1861. The form of 
the question then w^as, A Convention or No Convention, 
and representatives or delegates to be elected by the 
people to that Convention, in case it should receive a 
majority in its favor at the pending election ? The 
true test in this election was the aggregate majority of 
those who vindicated the Union cause during the con- 
test. The questions before the people were amply dis- 
cussed from the rostrum, and when the day for election 
came, the State of Tennessee, casting a vote of 130,000 
or 140,000, gave a solid majority of 64,000 opposed 
to going out of the Union of these States ; and of that 
number, fellow-citizens. East Tennessee gave 34,000 
in favor of the Union, and 7,000 against it. In June, 



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when the question was put in a different form — 
Eepresentation or No Representation? — East Tennes- 
see again recorded her vote, by overwhelming majori- 
ties, against the great treason. Then came persuasions, 
soft and sweet, and silent eloquence dropped like the 
dews of Hermon into the ears of our people of the 
mountains, and our young men were promised exemp- 
tion from the battle-field if they would only acquiesce 
and let the storm roll on. Well, fellow-citizens, the Au- 
gust election came, and the question was to elect a Gov- 
ernor, members of Congress, and representatives to the 
State Legislature. By that time, the bristling bayonets 
of the Southern Confederacy were found all over the 
State of Tennessee. Our great men in the middle and 
western portions of the State had felt the force of the 
storm ; among them, the man whom I was proud to 
follow, in 1860, as the representative of the Union sen- 
timent of our State, in conjunction with my illustrious 
friend on my right — I mean, fellow-citizens, John Bell. 
He, and the Ewings, Cave Johnson, Neal Brown, and a 
host of men whose hearts had been true to the Union 
until the storm rose, now felt their knees smite to- 
gether and their hearts fail them, and the fury of the 
tempest swept them all off into the Southern Confeder- 
acy. Our boys in the mountains saw the gathering 
storm. Efforts were made to keep us from the ballot- 
box. We were told — "The State having now gone 
out of the Union, if you dare to go and vote for the 
men who are in favor of the old Union, we will see 
that you are taken care of We have places prepared 
for men of your sentiments, and the first thing you 



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know you will find yourselves under the gallows, or in 
the loathsome dungeons of the Southern Confederacy." 
The storm came up, from the west and south, and the 
east of us, — dark, gloomy, gathering blackness with 
every hour. We heard the muttering thunders in its 
bosom, we saw the livid flashes, as they flashed upon 
us in our isolated position. But, fellow-citizens, when 
the election came, when the rest of the State was fall- 
ing off and going into treason and the Southern Con- 
federacy, East Tennessee, as far as she was concerned, 
elected her candidate for Governor, her representatives 
to the Congress of the United States, and her represent- 
atives to the legislature, by overwhelming majorities. 
It was all sorts of an election. We had candidates for 
various offices in the Confederacy, and candidates for 
the same offices in the Union ; and in my District, the 
candidate for the Congress of the United States was 
elected to that Congress, and he was also elected to the 
Congress of the Confederate States. 

Then came, my friends, the violence to individuals j 
then came the cutting down and shooting down of 
Union flags; but still. East Tennessee breasted the storm, 
she still held out faithful ; and by and by the Confeder- 
ate Congress, when the war waxed hot and hotter, passed 
a conscript law, and every man in the community, from 
eighteen to thirty-five years of age, was enrolled by 
officers in every neighborhood, appointed for that pur- 
pose, and notified to rally at a given time and at a 
given point, to enter active service for the defence of 
the rebel cause. Then the exodus, already begun, 
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had resolved that they never, — no, never, — conld be 
persuaded or charmed by blandishments or flattery, or 
forced by bayonets, to strike at the heart of the mother 
that bore them. No, fellow-citizens, but they went to 
their homes, kissed their mothers' lips and received 
their blessing; they received the fond farewells of their 
fathers, their sisters, their wives and their little ones, 
and then went forth exiles from their own loved land, 
and for no other reason than that they loved that land. 
There was no promise of premiums or bounties to 
them ; there was no hope of wealth, happiness, and 
prosperity in the distance ; but they left their homes in 
the darkness of the night, and ascended the rocky 
sides of the mountains, one hundred and fifty or two 
hundred miles from Kentucky, where they hoped to 
find relief Ragged and in tatters, with their feet un- 
shod and bleeding, they took the pathless ridges of the 
mountains, in the darkness of the night, aided by the 
silvery rays of the moon or the dimmer light of the 
stars ; and, in the daytime, sought the deepest, darkest 
gorges of the mountains, that they might find shelter 
and rest until the coming shadows of another night 
enabled them again to pursue their perilous way, that 
they might find liberty and the flag of their country, 
under its folds alone to fight, and, if need be, there 
to die. 

Regiments, companies, and squads of infantry and 
cavalry were now distributed over the length and 
breadth of the country, for the purpose of hunting down 
and shooting the escaping conscripts. Everywhere they 
went, fellow-citizens ; and as they went they entered the 



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houses of the people, searching for arms and ammu- 
nition, and thus the people of the whole county were 
robbed of their muskets and rifles, and left perfectly de- 
fenceless. Prominent citizens were arrested now, by 
armed bands, frequently at midnight, in the bosom of 
their families, without notice, and carried before some 
provost marshal, or some upstart official, tried before a 
military commission, hastily got together, ex farte, with- 
out evidence, and with scarcely the semblance of a 
charge, sometimes with no charge at all, and then hur- 
ried off to the loathsome dungeons of Tuscaloosa, Ala., 
or Madison, Ga., or Richmond, or Salisbury, or Knox- 
ville, or Nashville, there to lie in the midst of unutter- 
able filth and vermin, to pine away and famish upon 
their scanty and miserable fare, and sometimes to die 
in utter despair. I, myself^ have known the facts of 
which I speak. Men as reputable as any in East Ten- 
nessee have suffered in this way. I will mention one 
case. Mr. Pickens, (whose name is mentioned in the 
letter of the Confederate Secretary of State, which has 
been read by my friend, the Chairman,) had been a 
representative in the State Legislature. He was a man 
of heart, a man of soul, a man of intelligence, a man 
who was popular among all our people, a good citizen, 
and true and loyal to his country ; but he had been 
ostracized, and in compliance with the order of which 
I find a copy in the hands of my friend, he was seized, 
without charges, carried South, and in the loathsome 
dungeons of Tuscaloosa, Ala., he paid the forfeit of his 
life, and became a martyr to the glorious cause of 

human liberty and the Union of these States. 
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Sir, such instcances are not rare in our community. 
The prisons of the South have been filled with the best 
men of East Tennessee ; and it is said by those who 
know, that not less than five thousand — think of it, 
fellow-citizens! — not less than five thousand of the 
men of East Tennessee, because they were true to their 
country, because they loved the flag that emblematized 
all that they held dearest on earth, because they would 
'not bow the knee to Baal, nor receive upon their necks 
the yoke of the king of the South, have been snatched 
from their homes by the hand of lawless power, and 
borne away into captivity. The railroad bridge near 
where I lived was burned, and the parties charged with 
burning it were arrested, tried by a drum-head court- 
martial, according to the order which you have heard 
read, and hung ; and, fellow-citizens, I speak the truth 
when I tell you, that at least two of those gentlemen 
— for they w^ere gentlemen, honorable, high-minded, 
intelligent, moral, upright citizens of the community in 
which they lived — two, at least, I say, of those who 
were thus ignominiously hung, and their bodies left 
dangling in the air, knew not that they were sentenced 
until they were brought within sight of the gibbet 
upon which they were to expiate with their lives that 
offence which they had committed against the Southern 
Confederacy, — of being true to their own Govern- 
ment! 

Thus affairs moved on, fellow-citizens, and Terror 
planted her black flag over all our country; and, to 
make the reign of Terror still more fearful, a legion of 
tawriy Indians, whose forefathers had been wont, in 



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earlier times, to tomahawk and scalp the citizens of 
our section of the comitry, were brought from their 
mountain regions, with their painted faces and wild, 
unearthly whoops, and put upon the track of our re- 
maining young men. But be it ever remembered, to 
their credit, that these poor, half-civilized Cherokees 
were less savage on the trail than their pale-faced com- 
panions in arms ; and the people of my section of coun- 
try, after the first terror had subsided, and they found 
the kindness of heart that existed in the bosoms of 
these people, preferred a thousand Cherokee Indians 
among their homes to one captain's company of rebel 
Southern soldiers. 

Several regiments of citizens had now volunteered, 
and hundreds more had been compelled by coercion 
to enter the rebel lines, and to serve in the rebel 
army ; and about this time, August, 1863, Jeff. Davis 
made another call, running up to forty-five years of 
age ; and at the same time, Governor Harris issued an 
additional call, embracing all up to fifty-five years of 
age ; so you see that all our population from eighteen 
years of age up to fifty-five were called for by these 
several authorities. But simultaneously w4th these calls 
came the advance of General Burnside's gallant and 
glorious army across the Cumberland Mountains, for the 
redemption and relief of our suffering people. The 
army of General Bragg had been, just previous, com- 
pelled to evacuate Chattanooga, and thus General Rose- 
crans occupied that extremity of the State ; and many of 
our young men at once sprung from their hiding-places 
and their coverts in the mountains, and rallied to the 
standard of their country, under the lead of these gal- 



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lant and glorious champions of the Union, and our 
mothers, sisters, wives, and old men were left alone 
to occupy our vacant homes. To-day, fellow-citizens, 
more than 25,000 Tennesseeans wear the uniform and 
bear the arms of your country and my country. 
[Prolonged and enthusiastic applause.] While I would 
not disparage any other portion of these United States 
in its patriotism and devotion to country, I must say 
for my section, that in the midst of all the sufferings 
and trials, privations and perils incident to every hour 
of their lives, they have furnished to the support of 
your Government and my Government more men, in 
proportion to their population — more than two to 
one — than any other part of our common country. 

As General Burnside, in September, marched with 
his conquering hosts towards Upper Tennessee, the 
rebel army retreated before him ; but as they went, 
thinking, perhaps, that they were seeing the last of 
East Tennessee, they seized upon the property, the 
live stock, especially of the Union farmers, all over 
the country, where they could find it, and carried 
it off with them. From that moment, the work of 
devastation went on with accelerated momentum. 
Four times have the Union and rebel armies trav- 
ersed the whole length of East Tennessee, exhausting 
the country all around for current supplies, and at 
every movement, widening the track of ruin that they 
left behind them. In the track of the armies came 
robbers, who found convenient hiding-places and ral- 
lying points in the mountains that skirt our valleys, 
and came down and claimed their share of the prop- 
erty of our plundered people ; and thus it came to 



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pass that our barns and stables, our cribs and dwell- 
ings, were entered and robbed, and our people left 
utterly destitute. The very wearing apparel of our 
women and children Was seized by these ruffians and 
carried out of our houses. Our blankets and bed- 
clothing, everything of woollen that was calculated to 
render the soldiers more comfortable, was seized by 
the strong hand, and carried away. Our tanneries 
shared the same fate. They had all been compelled, 
in the reign of the rebels, to contribute sixty per cent, 
of their leather to the Government for the shoeing of 
their soldiers ; but now, when they were retreating 
from the State, they seized all the leather in the vats 
and bore it away, leaving our old men and women and 
children to meet the rigors of the passing winter bare- 
footed, as well as almost naked. 

Believe me, fellow-citizens. East Tennesse has drunk 
the full cup of suffering, and nothing seems left her 
now but to drain its bitterness to the very dregs. She 
has sacrificed everything but loyalty and honor ; she 
has suffered everything but dishonor and death ; and 
now destitution and famine, followed by despair and 
death, are trampling upon the thresholds of her sad 
homes, are entering their very doors, ready to con- 
summate the sacrifice and complete the suffering. But, 
thank God, throughout her sufferings she has been 
faithful. Persuasions, threats, insults, imprisonments, 
wounds, stripes, privations, chains, confiscations, gib- 
bets and military murders, the clash of arms, the terri- 
bleness of armies with banners, and all the combined 
and concentrated horrors of internecine war marshalled 

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upon her battle-torn bosom and hurling sorrow and 
ruin into all her homes, have never corrupted her 
loyalty, nor driven her a solitary line from her devo- 
tion to the Government of her fathers. Left unpro- 
tected, when she ought to have been protected by the 
Government that she loved, interior and isolated, dis- 
armed before she could organize, she was choked down 
by tyranny, under a reign of terror black as the night of 
the Robesperian dynasty, and her proud neck felt the 
heel of a despotism more relentless and crushing than 
the power of an autocracy. Her loyal people, because 
they could not do otherwise, suffered the infliction of a 
bondage which their inmost hearts abhorred — a bond- 
age that fettered the soul and sealed the lips, and all 
but closed the door of hope. We know, fellow-citizens, 
what history means when it tells us of a " Reign of 
Terror." Such a state of things is only to be felt ; it 
never can be told. It comes to me now, even here on 
the free soil of Massachusetts, not as a reality in the re- 
trospect, but like the memory of some horrid dream, 
to disturb and haunt me along my pathway of life. God 
grant that I may never feel the iron heel of such a 
despotism in my soul again, nor see it in the bosom 
of my fellow-citizens anywhere ! We breathe but to 
live ; and live but to pray — " Oh, Lord, how long ? " 
But, thank God ! the prayer of the loyalist, leaping up 
from the heart, cannot be held by the hand of the 
oppressor, and East Tennessee, in answer to our 
prayers, is almost free, and the old banner waves once 
more triumphantly, gloriously, over our mountain-girt 
home, and there may it float forever ! 



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With this history of the people of East Tennessee 
before you, fellow-citizens, it is for you to determine 
whether this brave and patriotic population shall be 
suffered to fall and perish in their devotion to our 
common country, by the blighting hand of famine, or 
whether your philanthropy and benevolence shall in- 
terpose to shield and protect and guard and save them. 
East Tennessee, my native East Tennessee, has sacri- 
ficed all she had for the country. Her horses, her 
mules, her flocks and herds, her cattle upon a thousand 
hills, have all been offered up ; her corn and wheat are 
all consumed ; her young nlen — all who have not 
perished in the camp or on the battle-field — are now 
swelling the ranks of your victorious armies ; and, sir, 
our matrons and maidens, our old men and little chil- 
dren, our soldiers' widows and orphaned babes, are all 
bound and upon the altar -, already the sacrificial knife 
is uplifted ; it trembles in the hand of Famine ; — may 
God save my people, and avert the stroke, in this their 
day of sorrow and trial ! 

While the scourges of this cruel war have thus 
blighted and blasted, devastated and ruined East Ten- 
nessee, the home of the free, the home of the loyal and 
the brave, they have scarcely been felt north of Mason 
and Dixon's line. On the contrary, a degree of pros- 
perity, such as you have never before experienced, has 
poured into the lap of the people of the North and West 
boundless wealth. The labors of your agriculturists 
have been succeeded by the blessings of a gracious 
Providence ; your mechanics have received remunera- 
tive prices for all the labor they could perform ; your 



32 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

merchants have seen their trade prosper beyond all 
parallel ; your manufacturers have extended and en- 
larged then' operations in every branch of industry ; 
and your mineral region is pouring forth, from the 
bounties of the earth, uncounted wealth. Whether 
you, fellow- citizens, will make this vast increase of 
wealth a source of blessing to yourselves, your chil- 
dren, your country and the world, is a problem that is 
left for you to solve. The desolations and ruin of this 
unnatural and cruel war have opened a wide field for 
your philanthropy and benevolence. Will you enter 
it ? — will you sow it ? — will you cultivate it ? If so, 
an abundant crop of blessings will fall upon your basket 
and upon your store, upon your homes and hearths, 
and, above all, upon your hearts. 

When starving Ireland was weeping over her fam- 
ishing children, and as they were drooping and dying 
in the remorseless grasp of famine, her wail of woe 
was heard across the wide waste of waters, and Amer- 
ica wept in sympathy with Ireland ; but while she 
lifted up, with one hand, their dying heads, with the 
other she ministered nourishment and life to the per- 
ishing children of the Emerald Isle. A nobler example 
of national magnanimity and Christian charity can 
scarcely be produced from the annals of the world. 
Yet these people were the subjects of a foreign Gov- 
ernment, and were strangers beyond the sea. The cry 
of suffering now comes to the American ear and falls 
upon the American heart from the famishing lips of 
.our own people ; and East Tennessee, from the summit 
of her rock-ribbed mountains, with one hand beckons 



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to her rich and powerful and flourishing sisters of the 
North, and with a bursting heart and tearful eye points 
with the other to the desolation that hangs like a pall 
of death over her forty thousand ruined homes in the 
valleys below. Will those sisters prove again angels 
of blessing and angels of mercy to bring peace and 
happiness and hope to those desolate homes, or will 
they leave their past munificence alone to illustrate 
and glorify their future history ? That you, fellow- 
citizens, do sympathize with my people, and that you 
are ready to open your hands for their relief, I cannot 
doubt ; and especially when I remember that the appeal 
of the suffering and the sorrowful, the afflicted and the 
bereaved of earth has never been made in vain to 
your magnanimous legislature, nor to your magnani- 
mous and benevolent people. Sir, the question is 
reduced to one of life or death. General Grant, as I 
learn from General Robert Anderson, wrote to him the 
other day, saying that there were three alternatives 
for the people of East Tennessee : one was, to be car- 
ried out of their section to where they could find 
something to eat ; another was, that provisions should 
be carried to them ; and the last was, if neither of the 
others was adopted, that the people of East Tennessee 
must perish in the midst of their mountains. Sir, I do 
not believe you intend that these people shall perish. 
I will not believe it till I see their bones bleaching 
among their native hills. I believe you have hearts 
that palpitate in unison with their hearts ; I believe 
you have hands that will open for their relief 

Sir, we must be relieved from destitution ; but that 



34 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOE 

is not all we must be relieved from. We must be 
relieved from the weight of this crushing war. How 
is that to be accomplished ? Somebody is to be sub- 
jugated. Either the traitors who have aimed at the 
life of this great nation must be conquered, or the 
remnants of the people who have bared their bosoms 
to the storm, who have seen their homes made deso- 
late for their love of country, must feel again the heel 
of the traitor on their necks. Sir, this war must be 
ended ; peace must come again ; we cannot live in 
this state ; it is abnormal ; it is opposed to all our 
hopes and wishes. We all love peace and desire peace ; 
but those traitors who would not have peace at the 
beginning are not ready now to embrace peace. A 
voice comes up from their homes, — a voice comes up 
from tens of thousands of new-made graves in the 
sunny South, — a voice comes up froni an ocean of 
tears, spreading over the land, — a voice comes up 
from tens of thousands of acres of waving cotton-fields 
of the past, reminding them of the blessings of peace. 
Their prosperous homes, their broad fields, their wide- 
spread sails of commerce, their open ports, their accu- 
mulated wealth, their growing importance and gran- 
deur, are all so many voices pleading for peace with 
that people j and yet they will not hear of peace. 
And, sir, that is not all. The very God of heaven 
says — Peace ! Peace ! Peace ! But they will not 
hearken ; they will not hearken to the voice that 
comes from the tombs of their dead ; they will not 
hearken to the appeal of interest, that comes to them 
from every channel of commerce and industry through- 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 35 

out their land ; they will not hearken to the cry of the 
people that suffer here, nor to the warning that comes 
from abroad, from those who love liberty, and pray 
for peace. They have passed all this by, and now I 
tell you there is only one way to obtain peace. And 
what is that ? By crying peace to them ? — by talk- 
ing moral suasion ? — No, sir, no ! I ask you, sir, can 
we get peace, happy, lovely, glorious, lasting peace, by 
quibbling over questions of constitutional law and 
talking about violated rights, and the rights of traitors, 
if they will come back into this Union, while they are 
pointing their daggers at the very heart of our nation- 
ality itself? No, sir. The temple that contains the 
treasures of a nation and the hopes of posterity in all 
time to come is blazing ; the smoke is flying upward 
as incense to heaven ; and what should you think of 
the firemen wto approached that temple to extinguish 
the flames, and instead of sending the antagonistic 
element to quell the fire, went to quarrelling as to 
who should throw the water first ? Sir, the ship is in 
danger ; on her port is Scylla, on her lee is Charybdis ; 
behind her is a reef, and breakers are before her ; the 
storm is spending its fury all around, and pirates 
are on her track. Shall the crew of that noble vessel, 
freighted with our wives and children and loved ones, 
freighted with our hopes for all time to come, freighted 
with the prospects of liberty and the hopes of freedom 
of all earth's inhabitants that know or have heard of 
us — shall- her crew, in the midst of this storm, fall to 
fighting as to who shall next command the ship ? Oh, 
is it not the part of patriotism for every man, in this 



36 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

dark hour, to come and strengthen the heart of the 
helmsman to stand at his post ? [Enthusiastic and 
prolonged applause.] And no matter what questions 
may separate and divide that crew, is it not their duty 
to stand in the midst of the storm, and say to the 
helmsman — " Guide our bark safely through ! Here 
we are, at your back, and we will stand by you through 
the storm ! " [Renewed applause.] Sir, if we do this, 
the vessel will soon pass between Scylla and Charybdis, 
she will leap over the breakers and the reefs, and when 
we get out upon a calm sea, and upon a prosperous 
voyage, then, and not until then, can we settle the 
questions that we may choose to raise. 

Sir, I have said that we want peace, and must have 
peace. But how shall we get it ? There is but one 
way, that I know of Let it gleam upon the bristling 
points of fifteen hundred thousand bayonets [tremen- 
dous and long-continued applause] ; let it blaze upon 
the glittering steel of five hundred thousand swords ; 
let it leap from the mouths of ten thousand cannon, 
and the echo of that thunder will bring peace to every 
home and house and heart throughout the length and 
breadth of our reunited country. When the atmos- 
phere is damp and filled with malaria, and death moves 
in every breeze, then, sir, what do we want ? We 
want the keen flash of heaven's electricity, we want 
the live thunder, rolling from mountain top to moun- 
tain top ; and then all is purified, all is calm, all is 
serene and healthful once more. 

Sir, I trust the time is coming, and will soon be 
here, when this cruel war will be over. I trust the 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENJ^ESSEE. 37 

day is soon coming which is to prove but the dawn of 
that prosperity which is in reservation for our glorious 
country in the near and far-off future, when, reunited, 
w^e shall sit under our own vine and fig-tree every- 
where, and none shall make us afraid ; when the voice 
of the sentinels upon Liberty's watch-tower, as it is 
uttered upon the coast of the Atlantic, shall be echoed 
all along the line, until the last man hears and returns 
the salutation from the shore of the far-off Pacific. 

Sir, permit me, in conclusion, to say, in the language 
of the illustrious statesman who now sleeps his last 
sleep at Marshfield, " Liberty and Union, one and 
inseparable, now and forever ! " [Loud and prolonged 
applause, and three hearty cheers for Colonel Taylor.] 

At the conclusion of Colonel Taylor's remarks, 
George B. Upton, Esq. offered the following resolu- 
tions, which were adopted unanimously by the meet- 
ing:— 

'■'■Resolved, That the warmest sympathy of all loyal and humane 
Americans is due to the suffering Unionists of East Tennessee, for 
the steadfast fidelity with which they have maintained the cause of 
our common country in the midst of peril and distress, for the 
spirit with which the men have rallied to defend the flag, for the 
devotion with which the women and children have sacrificed their 
diminished resources to feed our armies. 

^'Resolved, That patriotism, sound policy, and humanity alike re- 
quire that the extreme need of these our brethren and sisters should 
be relieved fi'om the overflowing abundance with which Providence 
has blessed us, even in time of civil war. 

" Resolved, That we call upon our Legislature to make a liberal 
grant in aid of the loyal population of East Tennessee, and that it will 
be a matter of just pride that the name of our old Commonwealth 
shall head the National subscription, which will carry hope and life 
to those noble men and women." 
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On motion of Mr. Upton the officers of the meeting 
were appointed a Committee to present the subject of 
the resolutions to the Legislature. 

Repeated calls were made for Governor Andrew, 
and, at the request of the Governor, Mr. Everett an- 
nounced that the state of His Excellency's health was 
such that he was compelled to ask the meeting to ex- 
cuse him from making any remarks. 

Honorable Robert C. Winthrop ascended the plat- 
form in response to repeated calls. He excused him- 
self from speaking at length. He said that from first 
to last in this terrible strife his heart had been with 
the Border States. He had felt that the Border States 
had been the hinge of the whole contest. With them 
he had been willing to go wherever they led, and to 
stop whenever they felt obliged to stop, whether upon 
subjects relating to slavery or the Constitution. He 
had felt that with them we might save this Govern- 
ment, without them we must inevitably lose it. He 
trusted 'that nothing would be left undone for reliev- 
ing the sufferings, and encouraging and rewarding the 
loyalty, of the people of the Border States, and partic- 
larly of East Tennessee, whether by individual contri- 
bution or legislative appropriation. 

REMARKS BY JUDGE RUSSELL. 

Judge Russell being called out by the audience, 
spoke substantially as follows : — 

Fellow- Citizens : — I hope " I dare do all that may 
become " a very modest young man, but I dare not 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 39 

address an audience that has been thrilled by elo- 
quence such as we have heard to-day. It has seemed 
to me that we listened, not to Colonel Taylor's voice 
alone, but to the voice of Eastern Tennessee herself, — 
her loyalty, her fidelity, the courage of her men, the 
patriotism, the suffering, the agony of her women and 
her children. Colonel Taylor needs no indorsement, 
but we know that he has for every word the full in- 
dorsement of the noble Burnside. Let me add, that 
this testimony is confirmed by one of the Generals who 
marched to relieve Burnside. General Blair has just 
told me a touching story of the devotion of the women 
who crowded to the line of his forced march to wel- 
come the sight of our armies ; to wave the flags which 
in evil days they had hidden in the secret recesses 
of their homes, even as they kept the love of Union 
in their hearts ; to bring th^ last piece of bacon, the 
last handful of meal, to feed the advancing soldiers of 
the Union cause. Often, he said, he forbade his men 
to take the scanty gifts of the poor. As often, he 
heard the reply : " Take it ; I have a husband, a son 
at Knoxville ; take it all for the Union." These are 
the people for whom our aid is sought. 

A friend has just asked whether it is in the power 
of the Legislature to make the proposed grant. I am 
glad no one doubts that it is in their hearts. I know 
nothing in our State Constitution which forbids an act 
of humanity and patriotism. It is for the " support 
and defence of Government" to guard the outposts in 
Tennessee ; it is for the " preservation " of the people 
here to preserve the loyal people there. Nor are prec- 



40 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

edents wanting, if precedents are needed for an act of 
generosity and of justice. Soon after the adoption of 
our Constitution, the State passed a resolve, and incur- 
red expense to aid the suffering inhabitants of South 
CaroHna. God hasten the day when the relations of 
South Carolina and Massachusetts shall again be such 
that the cry of distress there shall meet a ready answer 
in our own Commonwealth. We have made a State 
grant to help build a monument to Washington, in the 
capital. Can we vote supplies to honor the memory 
even of the greatest among our deceased patriots, and 
is it unconstitutional to keep alive the families of those 
patriots who stand in arms for the flag ? We have 
helped to raise another monument to the signers of 
the Declaration. Can we do nothing to support that 
people whose position, whose very existence to-day, is 
the proudest testimonial to the love of Union, and the 
strongest assurance that the Union shall be eternal ? I 
do not fear the legal question. I am only anxious that 
what is done shall be done at once. Our friend has 
spoken of America's gifts to Ireland, gifts so well 
repaid by the devotion of Ireland's sons in the day of 
our country's trial. Let me once more recall to your 
minds the words of Mr. Everett, when he pleaded in 
Fanueil Hall for the famine-stricken Irish. " Even 
now," he said in closing that appeal, " even now, while 
I have filled your ears with empty words, some of our 
fellow -Christians have starved to death." And now, 
while we are preparing to seek our comfortable homes, 
some of our fellow - patriots are sinking in despair. 
" Want, like an armed man," stalks among the deso- 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 4X 

lated homes of Eastern Tennessee. Famine hardly 
delays to strike, and pestilence, sure attendant of fam- 
ine, glooms in the horizon. God help those faithful 
hearts ; and may He so move our hearts that our 
hands may be open and our feet be swift to bear 
deliverance to those of our brethren who are almost 
ready to perish. 

The following letter from General Frank Blair was 
then read : — 

"Boston, Fehruary 9, 1864. 

" Honorable J. Wiley Edmands : Dear Sir, — I have received 
your invitation to address a meeting to be held in behalf of the loyal 
people of East Tennessee, at Faneuil Hall, on Wednesday evening 
next. I regret that my engagements will not permit me to attend. 
It has been my fortune recently to pass through that country, and to 
witness the suffering and distress which have been inflicted upon that 
people on account of their steadfast and devoted loyalty to their coun- 
try. No people have been more faithful and none have had their 
faith so tried. After the battle of Chattanooga I marched in com- 
mand of the I5lh Army Corps, under General Sherman, to the relief 
of Burnside at Knoxville. ,We passed through a country which had 
already been visited by both hostile armies, and pillaged with unre- 
lenting cruelty by the rebels on account of the loyalty of the people. 
Our troops were without rations or supplies of any kind, having been 
ordered to give up the pursuit of Bragg's flying army and march to 
the relief of Knoxville without an opportunity of obtaining anything 
of jhe kind, and were compelled to forage on the country. The peo- 
ple on our approach came out to meet us, bringing with them their 
scant supplies, and freely offered them to our soldiers. They cheered 
us with kind words, and waved the old flag, which they had cherished 
in secret, and implored us to hasten to the succor of their kindred, 
who composed a part of the garrison of Knoxville. 

" I trust that the people of Massachusetts will hearken to the 
appeal of Colonel Taylor, and that their liberality, so well known and 
so often felt in the remotest quarters of our country, will be stimu- 
4* 



42 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

lated by the remembrance of the kindness and devotion of the loyal 
women of Tennessee who succored our toil-worn soldiers on their 
march to the relief of their beleaguered brothers, many of whom 
were sons of Massachusetts. 

" 1 am, with great respect, your obedient servant, 

"Frank P. Blair." 

The foregoing proceedings, as has been stated, ap- 
peared in the Boston journals of the next day, the 11th 
February. It will be observed that the only measure 
of relief contemplated by the Resolutions was an ap- 
propriation from the treasury of the Commonwealth. 
The Committee appointed had reference to that object, 
and no arrangement was made for individual subscrip- 
tions, it having been doubtless considered that an ener- 
getic movement for that purpose might be regarded 
by members of the two houses, as superseding the 
necessity of legislative action. 

But though no provision w^as made for .receiving 
private subscriptions, a chord had been touched by 
Colonel Taylor, which drew a sympathetic response 
from the heart of the community. On the same day 
on which it was written I received the following letter, 
apparently in a female hand, enclosing three dollars: — 

"Boston, 11 February, 1864. 

'■'■Dear Sir: — Enclosed is a ' mite' which I wish forwarded with 
the thousands and tens of thousands of dollars that I hope will be 
sent forward from this goodly city of Boston, to alleviate the unpar- 
alleled sufferings of our dearly beloved countrymen in East Ten- 
nessee. 

" Such earnest, eloquent pleading as comes to us from our old 
* cradle of liberty ' cannot be unheeded by any patriot or lover of 
his race. 

" Teacher of a Public School. 

"Mr. Everett." 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 43 

Having no other means of acknowledging this 
anonymous letter, I sent it for publication, the next 
day, to the Editor of the "Daily Advertiser," with the 
following note : — 

" The accompanying letter was received by me to-day, with a three 
dollar bill enclosed. I request its publication, not merely on account 
of the pure spirit of patriotic and Christian charity which it discloses, 
but in the hope that )t may serve as an example to others. Small as 
the sum is, I doubt not it is large for the means of the giver, and it 
will sustain the life of one of our starving brethren in East Tennessee 
for a fortnight. If a small portion only of our community would, 
according to their ability, imitate this example, that desolated region 
might again become ' the happy valley ' of the South." 

On the same day on which this note appeared in the 
" Daily Advertiser " (12th February), a letter was ad- 
dressed to me by Mr. F. H. Peabody, of the banking- 
house of J. E. Thayer & Company, enclosing a check 
for one hundred dollars, which was accompanied by a 
donation of fifty dollars from his brother, Lieut.-Colo- 
nel Peabody. In the hope of obtaining their consent 
to mention their names, these liberal donations were 
not announced on the 13th. To my great regret, these 
young gentlemen insisted that their generous contri- 
butions should be announced anonymously. It is only 
for the purpose of this publication that they have 
yielded to my request that their names should now 
be mentioned. I also received on the 12th an anony- 
mous line from a " Boston Boy," enclosing five dollars 
as " another mite for the sufferers in East Tennessee." 

The announcement of this donation in the "Daily 
Advertiser" of the 13th was accompanied with the fol- 
lowing remarks : — * 



44 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

" In making this second announcement, I would express the hope 
that the movements of public and private liberality will not interfere 
with each other. One friend has said to me, with reference to the 
proposed legislative appropriation, that the sympathy of individuals 
was the proper dependence in cases of this kind ; while another 
friend has suggested that the aggregate of suflfering to be relieved is 
too vast for anything but the public resources. This last view, I fear, 
is nearer the truth, or rather the suffering is so general and so ex- 
treme, that after public and private liberality have both done their 
best, much want will remain hopelessly unrelieved. In addition to 
the cruel outrages inflicted upon the loyal people of East Tennessee, 
for the two long years that the Government was unable to extend to 
them any military protection, — outrages of which so shocking a pic- 
ture was presented by Colonel Taylor, — this devoted region has lat- 
terly been the battle-field of two large, hostile armies, operating far 
from their chief base of supplies. It is now utterly exhausted. The 
rich, the people in moderate circumstances, and the poor have been 
brought down to one common ghastly level of destitution, and are in 
want of food and clothing. It is plain that nothing but ample appro- 
priations from ihe large and prosperous States can effectually face 
this great amount of suffering, and that there will still be enough of 
want left to require all the aid that can be derived from private lib- 
erality." 

On Monday, the 15th, the donations of the Messrs. 
Peabody were announced, with an extract of the letter 
of Mr. F. H. Peabody, in which he says, " The behavior 
of the people of East Tennessee is something that every 
American will be proud of for ages to come. Now 
that Colonel Taylor has told us how to be useful in the 
matter, I believe the people of Massachusetts will give 
very substantial proof of their admiration for the most 
splendid patriotism of the age." A donation of five 
dollars from a lady in Yarmouth Port, transmitted in a 
letter of the 13th, expressive of " warm sympathy for 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 45 

the suffering East Tennesseeans " was acknowledged 
also on the 15th. 

Such was the commencement of the movement for 
the three days which followed the meeting in Fanueil 
Hall. I have thought it a matter of interest to narrate 
it with some particularity. The daily record of dona- 
tions announced at the time and now reproduced for 
preservation will show the steady and rapid growth of 
the fund. Liberal contributions steadily flowed in, 
anonymously in many cases, although at my earnest 
request, publicly expressed, and privately addressed to 
donors when known to me, they sometimes consented 
to the mention of their names. Letters of approval 
and encouragement were also addressed to me by per- 
sons of influence. Among the earliest of these (15th 
February) was C. P. Curtis, Esq., who accompanied his 
liberal donation with the request that it should " be 
remitted to the cruelly used people of East Tennessee." 
On the same day, W. H. Gardiner, Esq., addressed a 
letter to me, in which he remarked that " of the 
almost innumerable calls for aid caused by this griev- 
ous war, I know none, after the care of our own sol- 
diers, so unexceptionable or making so strong an 
appeal to all who have anything to give, as that of 
the loyal Tennesseeans. Yet we are moving verv/ 
slowly. Private citizens seem to be waiting for some 
action of the Legislature. The Legislature seems to 
be waiting to know how the people would like to see 
their money given away ; but while we ponder, East 
Tennessee starves." This letter enclosed the generous 
donation of two hundred dollars. 



46 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

Thus far, I had acted wholly as a volunteer in re- 
ceiving and announcing donations, but evidently the 
time had arrived for some organized movement. A 
meeting was accordingly held at my house on the 17th 
of February of the gentlemen named as officers of the 
assembly of the 10th, in Fanueil Hall, and of a few 
others who had been actively engaged in getting up 
that meeting. The members of the Legislature j^res- 
ent at this meeting represented that the best feeling 
with respect to the suffering East Tennesseeans pre- 
vailed at the State-House, and that the chief difficulty 
in the way of the grant was the doubt entertained by 
many members of the constitutional right of the Legis- 
lature to make such an appropriation. To aid in the 
removal of this doubt a memorial affirming the consti- 
tutional power, drawn up by Hon. C. G. Loring, and 
subscribed by Judge Curtis and other eminent jurists, 
was signed by the persons present at the meeting and 
ordered to be presented to the two houses. A Com- 
mittee was also appointed, consisting of Mr. Edward 
Everett, Hon. R C. Winthrop, J. Wiley Edmands, Esq., 
Hon. Judge Russell, and Patrick Donahoe, Esq., to con- 
sider and report a plan of proceedings in order to a 
general subscription. In the mean time it was deemed 
expedient to suspend the daily announcement of dona- 
tions which had hitherto been made in the columns of 
the " Boston Daily Advertiser." No further announce- 
ments were accordingly made for some days. 

It was soon apparent that this withdrawal of the 
subject from the public eye would operate unfavorably 
upon the progress of the fund, and at a meeting of the 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 47 

Sub-Committee on the 20th, it was voted to recom- 
mence the daily announcements, which from this time 
forward were continued without intermission. But the 
question of legislative aid being still undecided, it was 
deemed expedient to postpone for the present a for- 
mal appeal to i^he public. 

An inspection of the record of donations for the 
second week will show with what strength the tide of 
sympathy and munificence was rising. It would be 
obviously improper to continue to single out individual 
cases from the roll of beneficence, but I cannot forbear 
to allude to the donation of two hundred and fifty dol- 
lars from the late venerable Mrs. Pratt, then in the 
ninety-seventh year of her age, and the liberal contri- 
bution of Dr. James Jackson, who gave to the fund, at 
this early stage, the sanction of his revered name. Mr. 
William Gray's munificent donation of five hundred dol- 
lars was accompanied with a promise of another of the 
same amount if the legislative grant should fail. 

On the 25th, a letter was received from Mr. Speaker 
Bullock, enclosing the generous donation of one hun- 
dred dollars, and announcing the failure of the proposed 
legislative appropriation in the following terms : — 

" Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
House of Representatives, 
Boston, 25th Feb. 1864. 

" My Dear Sir : — You have already been apprised of the action of 

the House of Representatives upon the Resolves relating to East 

Tennessee. I desire that you and all our fellow-citizens should justly 

appreciate the motives which have controlled the vote of members in 

refusing the appropriation of $100,000. It is not to be supposed that 

they are insensible to the sufferings of the people of Tennessee, nor 



48 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

that they have forgotten the pathetic appeal of Colonel Taylor, so 
fully sustained by the simple and unadorned statement of General 
Burnside. But, speaking as an impartial witness of the discussion, I 
may properly say that the members of the House have undoubtedly 
acted under the influence of grave doubts as to the constitutional pro- 
priety of making the appropriation from the State Treasury. 

" I take it for granted that this action of tl|p House will render 
instantly imperative the private contributions of our people. I ac- 
cordingly inclose to you my own." 



The failure of the legislative appropriation gave a 
new impulse to the individual subscriptions. On Sat- 
urday, the 27th of February, they exceeded $2,100, 
and on Monday, the 29th, donations to the amount of 
more than $4,000 were announced. Among them 
was the munificent sum of $1,000 contributed by a 
unanimous vote of the Boston Stock and Exchange 
Board. 

The contributions thus far had been received princi- 
pally, though not exclusively, from Boston and the ' 
immediate vicinity. At a meeting of the Sub-Commit- 
tee on the 29th of February, it was ordered that the 
Chairman be requested to prepare the draft of an ad- 
dress to the citizens at large, to be submitted to the 
General Committee. Accordingly, at a meeting of the 
General Committee on the 2d of March, a draft of an 
address was reported by the Chairman, which, with 
amendments was accepted, as follows. It was thought 
to indicate the only organization for the collection of 
subscriptions which was necessary, under the favorable 
predisposition of the public. 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 49 

TO THE PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

" The undersigned were appointed a Committee of the citizens of 
Boston, assembled in Faneuil Hall on the 10th of February, to pre- 
sent the subject of the destitution of our loyal brethren in East Ten- 
nessee to the consideration of the Legislature. In the discharge of 
this duty, the Resolutions adopted by that meeting, with enthusiasm 
and unanimity, were respectfully transmitted by the undersigned to 
the House of Representatives. But the wide-spread interest which 
has been manifested in the subject, by the community at large, and 
the evident demand for some more organized and concerted action 
than has yet taken place, have led the Committee to think they shall 
render an acceptable service by addressing themselves directly to the 
people. 

" In dd?ng this, however, they deem it wholly unnecessary to do 
more than ask the attention of their fellow-citizens, throughout the 
Commonwealth, to the statements and appeals which have been made 
with such resistless power by Colonel N. G. Taylor of East Tennes- 
see. Those who have had the privilege of knowing and hearing him, 
will need no voucher for his character ; to others it may not be super- 
fluous to say, that he is fortified with credentials from Governor John- 
son of Tennessee and from the President of the United States. Any 
attempt to add force to his accounts of the distressed condition of his 
fellow-citizens would be unavailing. The Committee desire only in 
this Address to suggest to their fellow-citizens convenient methods of 
giving effect to that warm interest, which they rejoice to believe has 
been so universally excited in behalf of these noble sufferers. 

" They would respectfully propose, therefore, that the municipal 
authorities of the several cities and towns of the Commonwealth 
should regard, themselves as committees to receive donations from 
their fellow-citizens ; that the churches throughout the State, where 
no particular reasons exist to the contrary, should take up special 
collections for this purpose ; and that corporate bodies, whose charters 
allow it to be done and whose means admit, should also contribute to 
the relief of our destitute brethren. 

" Whatever sums may be thus raised may be remitted to the Chair- 
5 



50 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

man of this Committee, and will, with the large amount already 
received, be applied under the direction of the Committee, in the 
most prompt and efficient manner. Contributions will also be most 
willingly received by the Chaii-man of this Committee from liberal 
minded individuals, who may wish to take part in this most meritori- 
ous and patriotic work, in places where no local committee is organ- 
ized, or who may for any reason prefer to address themselves to him. 

" The Committee trust that it will not be thought obtrusive, in a 
case of this kind, if they look beyond the limits of Massachusetts, and 
respectfully invite the cooperation of the liberal and patriotic men 
and women of the other New England States, either as individuals 
or through local committees. Their contributions, in either case, will 
be most willingly received and promptly acknowledged by this Com- 
mittee. 

" The undersigned are happy to state, that, on the application of 
the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Association for the 
relief of East Tennessee, the Secretary of War has promised that the 
supplies, which may be forwarded to Nashville, shall be transported 
to East Tennessee by the Government trains, and that General Grant 
shall be instructed to furnish all possible facilities for their safe con- 
veyance. Articles of ^ood can be most readily obtained in the West- 
ern markets ; clothing and shoes can probably be procured to greater 
advantage in this vicinity. Donations of these last-named articles 
will be most gratefully received, and will be forwarded to their desti- 
nation by Mr. Samuel Hall, Jr., 8 Central Wharf, Boston. In the 
expenditure of the fund committed to them, the undersigned pledge 
their best exertions, that it shall be applied with the utmost possible 
economy, promptness, and efficiency. 

" In pleading the claims of a class of our fellow-citizens who have 
suffered so long and so cruelly, whose patriotism has been so nobly 
manifested under the greatest hardships and discouragements, and 
whose destitution is now so extreme, the Committee deem it scarcely 
becoming to allude to motives of expediency. But when expediency 
runs in the same channel as patriotism, humanity, and conscience, it 
may honestly be appealed to. It may not, therefore, be improper to 
state, that in all the field of military operations, there is not a spot of 
greater interest and importance than East Tennessee. As the con- 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 5^ 

trol of the Mississippi divides the States in rebellion East and "West, 
so the restoration of East Tennessee to its lojal inhabitants severs 
one of the two remaining lines of communication between the North 
and the South of the States confederated in this gigantic treason. 
There is accordingly no object of greater importance than to maintain 
this district, which will in all probability be one of the great battle- 
grounds of the approaching campaign. It hardly need be stated that 
this circumstance will of necessity complete the exhaustion of the ter- 
ritory, and reduce, if possible, to a still lower depth, the destitution of 
the entire non-combatant population. 

" The Committee will only remark in conclusion, that the case now 
presented to the public sympathy seems to them to stand alone, in 
the strength of its appeal to our patriotic liberality. A loyal people, 
equal in numbers to the entire free population of South Carolina, 
nobly adhering to the Union by a majority of five to one, when South 
Carolina took the lead in a treasonable war against it ; selected for 
this reason as an object of vindictive hostility ; the vast majority of 
her citizens denounced by a military Cabal at Richmond as traitors, 
because they refused to commit treason ; her prominent citizens too 
old for military duty hurried off to perish in the prisons of the Gulf 
States ; her young men forced into the I'ebel arrfly ; Union men, active 
in opposition to the tyrants who pretend to wage war for self-govern- 
ment and State rights while trampling on both, cruelly scourged and 
in some instances shot and hung in the sight of their families, their 
property given up to waste and plunder, their old men, women, and 
children reduced to want, — these are some of the titles of the loyal 
people of East Tennessee to our sympathy. And when we add that 
a great majority of the young men, who during two and a half years 
that their territory was occupied by the Confederate forces have been 
able to escape conscription into the rebel array, are now battling for 
the Union, the Committee feel that they present a case hardly to be 
paralleled in the annals of patriotism. They are confident that in a 
community like tliis, the aged parents, the wives, the sisters of breth- 
ren who, under circumstances like these, are sealing their fidelity to 
the Union with their blood, will not be allowed to perish from want. 

" Edward Everett, John A. Andrew, Frederic W. Lincoln, 
Jr., J. E. Field, A. H. Bullock, Robert C. Winthrop, Charles 



52 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOK 

G. LoRiNG, William Claflin, Patrick Donahoe, W. B. Rog- 
ers, Charles B. Goodrich, James Lawrence, Richard Froth- 
iNGHAM, John M. Forbes, Thomas Russell, A. A. Lawrence, 
J. Wiley Edmands, J. Z. Goodrich, F. L. Lee, Samuel Froth- 
ingham. 

" Boston, March 2, 1864. 

" P. S. The Press throughout the Commonwealth is respectfully 
requested to give insertion to the foregoing Address." 

When the Sub-Committee held their meeting on the 
last day of February, the fund exceeded $19,000, 
which had been contributed spontaneously and with- 
out solicitation, in the seventeen days which had 
elapsed from the announcement of "the Teacher's" 
modest donation. Steps had been taken, at the out- 
set, to ascertain the most direct channel for the con- 
veyance of su^Dplies to East Tennessee. In order to 
make a portion of the fund as promptly available as 
possible, the Sub-Committee, having been clothed with 
full powers as an Executive Committee, determined on 
the 2d of March to remit $10,000 to Lloyd P. Smith, 
Esq., of Philadelphia, who, in conjunction with Fred- 
eric Collins, Esq. was about to repair to Knoxville in 
person, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Association for 
the Relief of East Tennessee. These gentlemen readily 
took charge of this sum, and it was joined with the 
funds of the Pennsylvania Association, in the purchase 
of large supplies of food at Cincinnati. These supplies 
were as promptly conveyed to Knoxville, as the means 
of transportation at Nashville allowed, almost the en- 
tire force of the railroad being required by General 
Sherman's army, then on the advance into Georgia. 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 53 

A very interesting report of the visit of Messrs. Smith 
and Collins to Knoxville has been published by those 
gentlemen, and they are entitled to the cordial thanks 
of the contributors in this part of the country, for their 
fidelity and good judgment, in the application of the 
funds remitted from Boston. 

From this time forward the fund advanced with per- 
haps unexampled rapidity. The sum announced on 
the 3d of March amounted to $6,349, which was the 
largest sum in any one day. The sum of $4,829 was 
reported on the 4th ; of $3,456 on the 5th ; of $5,024 
on the 7th ; and of $3,120 on the 8th, which included 
the donation of $1,000 from the officers and men of 
the 44th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. This 
handsome donation was accompanied with the follow- 
ing letter : — 

"Boston, March 5, 1864. 
" Hon. Edward Everett : Dear Sir, — Through the liberality of 
their fellow-citizens, the Regiment which I have the honor to com- 
mand, received a Regimental Fund of $5,000. A portion of this 
money has been applied to the use of the Regiment, — a portion I 
retain for further need of the Regiment. Upon consultation with 
William Gray, Esq., Treasurer of the fund, and with my field- 
officers, and feeling sure that it will meet the approval of the orig- 
inal donors, I have decided to devote $1,000 to the relief of the 
suffering loyalists of East Tennessee, which please accept in behjilf 
of the men and officers of the 44th Regiment M. V. M. 

" I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 

" Francis L. Lee, Col. 44th Regt. M. V. M." 

The contributions announced on the 9th of March 
amounted to $6,220, in which was included the sum of 

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54 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

$4,773 collected in Franklin Street and its vicinity by 
the active exertions of George H. Braman, Esq. In a 
supplement to the "Boston Daily Advertiser" of the 9th 
of March, a complete list was given of all the donations 
up to the 8th, amounting in the aggregate to $52,120 
received in less than a month from the date of the 
meeting in Faneuil Hall. 

On the 5th of March, Messrs. J. IngersoU Bowditch, 
Hon. A. A. Lawrence, and Samuel Hall, Jr., Esq., were 
added to the Executive Committee. Mr. Hall kindly 
took charge of the contributions of ready-made cloth- 
ing, &c. and forwarded them from time to time to their 
destination. His reports will be given in the sequel 
and will show how much the cause is indebted to him 
for his laborious and gratuitous services. 

It having been intimated by Mrs. George Ticknor, 
President of the Ladies' Sewing Circle, that the ladies of 
that association would cheerfully make up into articles 
of wearing apparel such materials as the Committee 
would furnish for that purpose, it was voted on the 
10th of March to place the sum of $2,000 at her dis- 
posal, to be expended in the purchase of materials. In 
this way, the sum appropriated was, by the generous 
cooperation of the Ladies' Sewing Circle, rendered 
nearly twice as efficient as it would otherwise have 
been. The articles of clothing made up were forwarded 
from time to time by Mr. Hall. The extent of the 
labor bestowed by the Ladies' Sewing Circle may be 
seen in the following report of its results : — 

" Dear Mr. Everett : — It is due to you,' to the gentlemen who 
consented to intrust us with $2,000, and to us who received the trust, 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 55 

that some report should be made of the mode in which we have used 
the money given for the benefit of sufferers in Tennessee. We have 
used it as discreetly and carefully as we could ; — we sent last Mon- 
day our ninth package to Mr. Hall, the agent you designated, and 
that exhausted the last dollar of our fund. 

" The schedule of the packages is as follows : — 

Whole number of articles sent 2,921 

Whole number procured by $2,000 2,579 

Donations, and socks knit from the yarn sent by Mr. Edmands 342 

2,921 
Of this number there were : — 
For women and children . . . . . . . 1,875 

For men and boys 1,046 

" It has been a very interesting occupation, and we wish we could 
do more for those who suffer so terribly and so faithfully. 

*' Hoping you will think that we have fulfilled our stewardship suit- 
ably, we are very truly yours, 

" Anna Ticknor, 

''Park Street, June 8, 1864." " IsA E. LORING." 

I subjoin a letter from Rev. Dr. Humes, Chairman of 
the Knoxville East Tennessee ReUef Association, con- 
taining a copy of a vote of thanks adopted at a regular 
meeting of the Executive Committee, on the receipt of 
the foregoing report. 

" Knoxville, Tenn., June 22, 1864. 

" Dear Sir : — At the regular meeting of the Executive Committee 
'of the East Tennessee Relief Association, held to-day, it was unani- 
mously 

" ' Resolved, That the Chairman be instructed to tender the thanks 
of this Society to Mrs. Ticknor and Miss Loring, and to the Ladies of 
the Sewing Circle of Boston, whom they represent, for their kind 
sympathy and benevolent labors, on behalf of the destitute and suffer- 
ing people of East Tennessee ; and that this insufficient tribute to 
their active patriotism and friendship h.e placed upon the records of 
the Committee, in token, not only of gratitude, but also of our desire 



56 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

that the memory of their names and good deeds be cherished and per- 
petuated in our mountain homes, long after the garments, with which 
they have clothed their needy countrymen, shall have perished.' 

" I need scarcely say that it gives me peculiar pleasure to comply 
with the directions of the Committee, and to communicate, as I beg 
leave to do through you, to Mrs. Ticknor and Miss Loring, a copy of 
the above resolution of thanks. 

" "With the assurance of my strong and sincere appreciation of their 
practical good will, I am, 

" Yours truly and respectfully, 

" Thomas W. Humes, 
" Chairman Ex. Com. E. T. R. A." 

In thus placing on record the active cooperation of 
the Ladies' Sewing Circle, I cannot forbear adverting 
to the large share borne generally by the patriotic 
women of the community in this meritorious work. 
An inspection of the list of donations will show them 
to have been among the earliest and most liberal con- 
tributors ; and I am well persuaded that their active 
sympathy, felt in every form of domestic influence, 
has been one of the most efficient causes of the success 
of the efforts for the relief of our suffering brethren in 
East Tennessee. There were incidents and circum- 
stances of the war, as it bore upon the women of that 
devoted region, well calculated to touch the hearts of 
their sisters in the loyal States. Husbands, brothers, 
and sons were often torn from their homes, thrown 
into prison, forced into the army, in some cases shot 
or hung in sight of their families. The following 
touching occurrence of a different character was 
vouched for by Colonel Taylor, as within his own 
knowledge. 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 5*7 

"Incident of the War. — After the battle at Bean I Station, 
East Tennessee, the rebels were guilty of all manner of indignity 
toward the slain. They stripped their bodies, and shot all persons 
who came near the battle-field to show any attention to the dead. 
The body of a little drummer-boy was left naked and- exposed. Near 
by, in an humble house, there were two young girls, the eldest but six- 
teen, who resolved to give the bod}' a decent burial. They took the 
night for their task. With hammer and nails in hand, and boards on 
their shoulders, they sought the place where the body of the dead 
drummer-boy lay. From their own scanty wardrobe, they clothed 
the body for the grave. With their own hands they made a rude 
coffin, into which they reverently put the dead boy. They dug the 
grave, and lowered the body into it and covered it over. The noise 
of the hammer brought some of the rebels to the spot. The sight 
was too much for them. The stillness of the night — the story so 
eloquently told by the heroic labors of the little girls. Not a word 
was spoken ; no one interfered, and when the sacred rites of burial 
were performed, all separated ; and the little drummer-boy sleeps 
undisturbed in his grave on the battle-field." 

The most judicious and efficient manner of disposing 
of the fund was of course an object of early consider- 
ation with the Committee. They were aware that 
strong objections to the employment of salaried agents, 
for the disbursement of a fund of this kind, existed in 
the community, although in some cases the duty can- * 
not be so satisfactorily performed through any other 
agency. To entertain individual applications for relief 
coming from so great a distance was out of the ques- 
tion. Fortunately there already existed at Knoxville, 
the capital of East Tennessee, an Association organized 
for the purpose of relieving the distress of that devoted 
region. The gentlemen composing the Executive Com- 



58 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

mittee of that Association ^ were certified to us as per- 
sons of the highest respectabihty, and the Committee 
conceived that thej should best discharge their duty 
to the generous contributors to the fund, by paying it 
over in large instalments and as fast as it could be 
advantageously invested, to the accredited agents of 
the Knoxville Eelief Association, who were duly au- 
thorized to receive it. These agents, at that time, 
were Colonel N. G. Taylor, to the effect of whose 
fervid appeals the formation of the fund was mainly 
due, and Mr. G. M. Hazen of Knoxville. A letter hav- 
ing been received from Colonel Taylor, then in New 
York, requesting that the funds on hand might be 
remitted to him and Mr. Hazen, it was on the 17th of 
March voted by the Executive Committee, that Mr. J. 
Wiley Edmands, one of their number who was about to 
visit New York, be requested to examine the creden- 
tials of Messrs. Taylor and Hazen. If in his judgment 
they were found sufficient, the Chairman was author- 
ized to' accept their draft for a sum not exceeding 
$40,000. Mr. Edmands found the gentlemen named 
to be clothed with full authority to receive and invest 
whatever funds might be contributed for relief of the 
loyal people of East Tennessee. Accordingly on the 
21st of March their draft at sight for $40,000 was paid. 
Mr. Hazen repaired immediately to Cincinnati, the 
nearest market to East Tennessee, at which provisions 

1 This Committee consisted of Rev. Dr. Humes, (a clergyman of the Epis- 
copal Church, possessing the entire confidence of the community,) Messrs. 
William Heiskell, W. G. Brownlow, John Baxter, O. P. Temple, and John 
M. Flemins. 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 59 

conld be obtained, and invested the fund placed in his 
hands by the Committee and a small sum which had 
been collected by Colonel Taylor, in those articles 
which were most needed for the relief of the existingr 
distress. On the arrival of this large amount of flour 
and other bread-stufis, bacon, and other articles of food 
at Nashville, considerable delay arose from the limited 
means of transportation, the railroad to Chattanooga 
being the only route. The War Department, as has 
been observed, had, at the instance of the Pennsyl- 
vania Committee, engaged to cooperate in the relief of 
East Tennessee, and to allow suppHes to go forward 
by the Government trains. The exigencies of the 
military service required at first the employment of 
the entire force of the railroad, but before lono; the 
agent of the Knoxville Relief Committee was allowed 
to dispose of one merchandise car daily, or to that 
average amount. In this way the supplies were con- 
veyed to their destination as rapidly as they could be 
advantageously received and distributed. 

This distribution was effected in the most satisfac- 
tory manner. Under the superintendence of the Exec- 
utive Committee at Knoxville, local committees were 
organized in the different counties in East Tennessee 
within the federal lines. It was, of course, impossible 
to send supplies into those counties in the Northeast- 
em part of the State, which were in the possession of 
the enemy, and not entirely safe to do so, in the mid- 
dle region, lying open to the ravages of armed bands 
of ruffians under the name of guerrillas. But fugitives 
from these districts constantly arriving at Knoxville 



60 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR , 

were relieved at that place. A small portion of the 
supplies were sold at Knoxville and elsewhere to per- 
sons who had money, but owing to the destitution of 
the markets, were unable to exchange it for food. The 
Committee here did not recommend this measure, but 
there seems to be no valid objection to it, as without 
it persons having the means to purchase would in 
some localities have been obliged to accept as a gift 
what they would rather pay for. The proceeds of 
these sales were of course added by the Knoxville 
Committee to their funds. 

On the 20th of April, the further sum of $20,000 
was, on the draft of Colonel Taylor, remitted to Gil- 
more, Dunlap & Co., bankers of the Knoxville Eelief 
Association at Cincinnati. The funds intrusted to us 
having been all contributed under the influence of the 
eloquent appeals of Colonel Taylor, deputed by the 
Knoxville Committee to procure relief for his fellow- 
citizens of East Tennessee, were evidently applicable 
exclusively to that object, nor could they justly be 
extended to sufferers in any other quarter, though 
equally destitute and meritorious. Accordingly when 
representations were made to us by letter of the great 
distress among the loyal refugees at Murfreesborough, 
and still more at Nashville and even at Cincinnati, 
though principally at Nashville, knowing that these 
refugees had fled not only from East Tennessee, but 
from Western North Carolina and the Northern coun- 
ties of the Gulf States,»profoundly sympathizing as we 
did with the sufferers at the places just named, and 
fully aware of the heavy burden which had devolved 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 61 

upon our fellow-citizens at Nashville, we yet felt it 
beyond our power to adopt any general measure of 
relief We called the attention, however, of the Knox- 
ville Committee to the subject, and suggested the 
expediency of authorizing a reasonable distribution of 
supplies at Murfreesborough for fugitives from East 
Tennessee, and such relief as might be deemed practi- 
cable to the much larger number of the same class at 
Nashville and Cincinnati. This recommendation was 
promptly and liberally complied with by the Knoxville 
Committee. 

About the middle of April a communication was 
addressed to the Secretary of War, setting forth that 
the transportation of supplies, notwithstanding the 
kind promise of the Department, was seriously delayed 
at Nashville, and requesting that if this arose from any 
undue strictness in construing the orders which gave 
precedence to the Government work, the officer in 
charge might be directed to interpret them more liber- 
ally. To this letter the following reply was received 
from the Department : — 

" War Department, ) 

"Washington City, May 4, 1864.) 

" Sir : — I have the honor, by direction of the Secretary of War, to 
acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 24th ultimo, 
relating to the difficulty experienced in obtaining transportation for 
the supplies furnished by citizens of Massachusetts, for the benefit of 
suffering Unionists in East Tennessee. 

" In reply, I am instructed to say that these difficulties arise solely 
from the fact, that every available means of transportation has been, 
and is still, needed by General Sherman, to transport supplies of 
food for his army, preparatory to the opening of the Spring Campaign. 
In the mean time, Government rations have, whenever practicable, 
6 



62 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

been issued in cases of special need, (230,000 rations have already- 
been issued in such cases in the department of the Tennessee,) and 
you may rest assured that the facilities desired by you, will be fur- 
nished, whenever the interest and the necessities of the public service 
will permit. 

" I have the honor to be. Sir, very respectfully, 
" Your obedient servant, 
[Signed] Ed. R. S. Canbt, Brigadier- General. 

" Hon. Edward Everett, Boston, Mass." 

Meantime the fund continued to increase. The sym- 
pathy in which it had its origin pervaded all classes of 
the community. Donations continued to be made, 
from those of a thousand dollars and more from the 
Stock and Exchange Board, the Corn Exchange, and 
the ladies and gentlemen who took part in the musical 
entertainments at Chickering's Hall, down to the literal 
mite of the poor widow. Other dramatic exhibitions, 
concerts, and exhibitions of tableaux contributed liberal 
sums. Children's fairs were held* in town and country, 
the proceeds of two of which amounted to $1,000 
each, and several churches took up large collections, 
notwithstanding the liberal donations already made by 
individual members. The principal amount received 
was from Massachusetts, although some handsome 
remittances were made from Providence, K. I., from 
New Hampshire, from Maine, Vermont, and New York. 
Among these it will not be thought improper for me 
to mention the donations of $500 each from Mrs. 
Deborah Powers of Lansingburg, N. Y., Miss Arabella 
Rice of Portsmouth, N. H., and Hon. J. Goodwin of 
Portsmouth, from the estate of the late Mrs. Charlotte 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 53 

Rice of that place, and in presumed accordance with 
what would have been her wishes. 

In this way the fund which, when the aggregate 
list was published on the 9th of March, amounted to 
above $52,000, had by the end of that month swelled 
to above $77,000. The end of April brought it up to 
$91,500. One hundred thousand dollars,, the amount 
of the appropriation proposed in the Legislature, had 
been assigned by public opinion as the sum which we 
should endeavor to raise by private subscription, and 
on the 4th of June that amount was reached. The 
foundation was laid in the Teacher's donation of three 
dollars on the 11th of February, the head-stone was 
carried up by $1,000 received from a Children's Fair 
at the house of Dr. T. I. Talbot on the 4th of June. 
On the following morning the fact was announced in 
the "Daily Advertiser," with the following remarks : — 

" To the numerous individuals and societies whose unsolicited dona- 
tions have resulted in this large contribution for the relief of our loyal 
and destitute brethren in East Tennessee, on their behalf I return my 
most grateful acknowledgments. 

" In addition to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, thus con- 
tributed in money, articles of clothing valued in the aggregate at some 
thousands have been received and forwarded. Nor must the assid- 
uous labor of the Ladies' Boston Sewing Circle, in making up two 
thousand dollars worth of materials of clothing, and of other smaller 
sewing circles, in town and country, be forgotten. 

" Liberal as is the amount, which has thus far been raised, here 
and elsewhere, much destitution and suffering will still remain unre- 
lieved. I shall be most happy, on behalf of the Committee, whose 
organ I have the honor to be, still to receive whatever may be con- 
tributed for this object, announcing the donations, however, less fre- 
quently than has hitherto been done. 



64 



ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 



" It is but an act of jutntice to the Editors of the " Daily Advertiser " 
to return them the cordial thanks of the Committee for the gratuitous 
daily insertion of ray announcements, at one time of great length, for 
which the usage of the Press would have warranted the ordinary 
advertising charge. The success of the subscription has, in no small 
degree, been promoted by this liberality on their part. 

" Edward Everett." 
t 

I am happy to state that more than two thousand 
dollars have smce been added to the fund. 

The following reports from Mr. Hall will afford some 
idea of the quantity of ready-made clothing which has 
been forwarded by that gentleman. The pecuniary 
value of the articles has been stated but in few ill- 
stances, but is supposed to amount to several thousand 
dollars. Sincere thanks are due to Mr. Hall for his 
laborious and gratuitous services in forwargling them. 



" Dear Sir : — The following packages, containing clothing, &c., 
have been received to this date, contributed for the sufferers in East 
Tennessee, viz : — 



1 box from Mrs. Ticknor, Park 
Street. 

1 bundle from M. G. Chapman. 

1 do. from Mrs. H. F. Damon. 

1 do. from Mrs. Sherman. 

1 box, value $250, from Mrs. J. A. 
Little, President of the Ladies' Union 
of Arlington Street Church. 

1 bundle from Mrs. Balch. 

4 do. from Mrs. E. Atkins. 

1 do. from Mrs. Emory Washburn, 
Cambridge. 

2 do. from the Misses Ward. 

1 do. from Dr. Winsor, Cambridge. 
1 do. from Mrs. Emerson. 
1 do. from Miss Wells, Cambridge. 
1 do. from Mrs. Pickering. 



1 bundle from John Gardner. 

1 do. from Prof. F. J. Child, Cam- 
bridge. 

2 boxes from Melendy & Stewart. 

3 barrels and 1 bundle from ladies 
of West Medford, through Mrs. Eliza 
H. Caret. 

2 bundles from George F. Guild. 
1 do. from Mr. Clark. 

1 do. from Mrs. Frances Parkman. 

2 boxes from Mr. R. Pollard. 

1 do. from J. C. Hoadly, New Bed- 
ford. 

2 bundles from Mrs. Dr. Charles E. 
Ware. 

12 do. from persons unknown. 



" Respectfully yours, 

<' Samuel Hall, Jr. 
« Boston, 3Iarch 24, 1864." 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 



65 



" Dear Sir : — The following contributions of clothing, &c. for the 
sufferers in East Tennessee have been received since my last acknowl- 
edgment (March 24), and have been sent forward, viz : — 



3 boxes and 2 bundles from Boston 
Sewing Circle, by Mrs. Ticknor. 

1 bundle from Mrs. McNeil, Kox- 
bury. 

1 do. Miss C. A. Brewer. 

1 do. Mrs. Thwing, Quincy. 

1 do. S. Chapin, Gloucester. 

1 do. B. F. Adams. 

1 do. Mr. BuUard. 

2 do. L. A. Huntington. 

1 do. William P. Thurston, Jamaica 
Plain, and 21 Dover street. 

2 cases brogans from Col. Gordon 
McKay. 

1 bundle from Edward Page. 
1 box and 1 bundle from the Indus- 
trial Society of St. Paul's Church. 
1 do. from Miss I. E. Loring. 

3 bundles from Mr. Manning. 

3 barrels and 2 boxes from John J. 
May. 



1 bundle from Mrs. Sarah Johnson, 
value $83. 

2 boxes from Waltham Soldiers' 
Aid Society, by Miss M. J. Miles, 
value $375. 

1 basket and 1 bundle from Miss 
Margaret C. Thompson. 

1 bundle from Mrs. C. E. Norton, 
Cambridge. 

2 boxes from J. H. Nichols, Salem. 
2 bundles from Mrs. Augustus 

Flagg. 

1 do. from "A New Bedford Lady." 

2 boxes and 1 bundle from " Corner 
of Summer and Otis streets." 

2 bundles from Bishop Eastburn. 
2 do. from Rev. Mr. Foote. 

1 box from North Bridgewater. 

2 boxes and a bundle from Mr. Jo- 
seph Willard. 



" Respectfully yours, 

" Samuel Hall, Jr. 



« AfrU 18, 1864." 



" Boston, May 18, 1864. 
" Dear Sir : — Since my last acknowledgment (April 18th), the 
following contributions of clothing, &c., have been received, all of 
which have been forwarded to the sufferers of East Tennessee, 



3 cases from Boston Sewing Circle, 
by Mrs. Ticknor. 

2 bundles from Mrs. Fletcher. 
1 bundle unknown. 
1 box from New Bedford. 
1 bundle from Mrs. McKean. 

1 case from ladies of Beverley, by 
Hannah C. Adams. 

2 bundles from Mrs. T. C. Hubbard, 
Newton. 



1 box from Greenfield, or Shelburne 
Falls. 

1 bundle from Mrs. Atkins. 

1 barrel, value $53.75, from Ladies' 
Benevolent Society, Amory Village, 
Millbury, Mass. 

1 bundle, 80 pairs stockings, J. Wi- 
ley Edmands. 

1 do. from Miss Minot. 

1 box from Salem. 

1 bundle from R. H. Stearns. 



" Respectfully yours, 

"Samuel Hall, Je." 



6* 



66 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

"Boston, June 24, 1864. 
'■'^ Dear Sir: — Since my last report (May 18), the following pack- 
ages of clothing, «fec., have been received, all of which have been for- 
warded to the East Tennessee Relief Association, viz : — 



1 bundle, Moses P. Grant. 

1 do. Rev. Mr. Barnes, Maiden. 

1 do. Mr. Morrill. 

1 do. Mrs. Curret, West Medford. 

1 do. H. Williams. 

1 do. Mrs. Eastburn. 



2 boxes from Boston Sewing Circle, 
by Mrs. Ticknor. 

1 box. New Church Sewing Circle, 
Boston. 

1 do. Brookfield, Mass. 

1 do. and 2 baskets, Louisburg 
Square. 

" Respectfully yours, 

" Samuel Hall, Jr." 

In this connection it may be proper to mention that 
Mr. Allen Cameron, agent of the Abbot Worsted Com- 
pany, Graniteville, contributed one hundred pounds of 
gray stocking yarn, worth one dollar and fifty cents 
per pound, to be knit for the destitute in East Ten- 
nessee. A portion of this yarn was knit into eighty 
pairs of stockings by the laHies of Rev. Edward E. 
Hale's congregation. 

After Mr. Hazen had invested at Cincinnati the sum 
remitted to him and Colonel Taylor as above men- 
tioned, he was relieved of his agency, and Thomas G. 
Odiorne, Esq. of Cincinnati, was appointed by the Ex- 
ecutive Committee at Knoxville, as their permanent 
purchasing agent. This gentleman's residence at Cin- 
cinnati, high character, disinterested zeal in the cause, 
and experience as the agent of the Sanitary Commis- 
sion eminently qualified him for the efficient discharge 
of the trust, which he has executed to the entire satis- 
faction of the Committee in Boston and the Executive 
Committee at Knoxville. 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 57 

It has already been stated, that, instead of employ- 
ing paid agents of their own, the Committee deemed 
it expedient, from time to time, to pay over the fund 
intrusted to them to the accredited agents of the 
Knoxville Relief Association. By April the 23d, 
$72,000 had been advanced in this way.-^ This sum, 
with the liberal appropriation of the Philadelphia 
Committee, and donations made directly to Colonel 
Taylor, has kept the agent at Cincinnati amply sup- 
plied with funds for the purchase of all the supplies, 
which could be sent forward by water to NasJ;Lville, 
and has left a balance in his hands to be invested in 
proportion as transportation can be obtained by the 
Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 

On the 28th of July, the fund intrusted to the Com- 
mittee having reached an amount larger by about 
$2,000 than the sum originally contemplated, a meet- 
ing was called to consider the expediency of clos- 
ing the account, and it was decided that of the bal- 
ance on hand, $28,000 should be remitted to the 
bankers at Cincinnati, making $100,000 paid over, and 
leaving the residue chargeable with the cost of trans- 
portation of the ready-made clothing, forwarded by 
Mr. Hall, and some small contingent expenses. Before 
the remittance could take place, a letter was received 
from Dr. Humes, stating that the stock of supplies on 
'hand at Knoxville, and in charge of the local agents 
would, with prudent management, suffice till larger 

1 In this sum of $72,000 are included $10,000 paid to the Philadelphia 
Committee, and $2,000 expended in materials of clothing made up by the 
Ladies' Sewing Circle. 



68 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

means of transportation could be obtained; and that 
as the number of refugees at Knoxville was increasing, 
it was expedient to have in reserve the means of rehef 
for autumn and winter, when he fears, that the distress 
will again become serious. For these reasons, he rec- 
ommends that the Committee should retain, for the 
present, the balance in their hands. In accordance 
with this advice he has been informed that $28,000 
will be held by the Committee subject to his draft at 
sight, or that of the bankers at Cincinnati acting by 
his direction. 

It is but an act of justice to the Knoxville Commit- 
tee to speak in terms of high commendation of the 
manner in which they have effected the distribution of 
the supplies, — a work beset with no inconsiderable 
difficulties arising from the extent of territory to be 
relieved, the want of those means of communication 
which exist in most of the Atlantic States, and the 
unsettled state of the country. By the aid of local 
organizations and agencies, with the vigilant super- 
vision of the Central Committee at Knoxville, it is 
believed that the work has been judiciously and satis- 
factorily performed. Some losses have occurred, una- 
voidable it is presumed, on a line of communication so 
extensive and circuitous, where delay and irregularity 
in transportation were necessarily accompanied with 
unexpected accumulation at particular points, and • 
where the channels of ultimate distribution are so 
numerous. But the Committee have no reason to 
think that these losses were greater than was to be 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. gg 

expected under the circumstances of the case, the 
nature of the service, and the state of the country. 

The Committee perform an agreeable duty in ac- 
knowledging their special obligations to the Rev. Dr. 
Humes, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of 
the East Tennessee Relief Association. Too much 
cannot be said in praise of the diligence, fulness, and 
punctuality of his correspondence. The extracts from 
it, which have accompanied the daily announcement 
of donations, have served an important purpose in 
keeping up the public interest in the cause. It has 
afforded the contributors to the fund the satisfaction 
of knowing that their active sympathy has taken 
the desired effect ; and that the supplies so liberally 
furnished have been faithfully and judiciously distrib- 
uted. 

Dr. Humes' letters have not only furnished the 
satisfactory information of suffering relieved, want of 
the most urgent kind supplied, and of life no doubt 
in this way, in many cases preserved, but they have 
contained assurances scarcely less gratifying that the 
moral effect upon the minds of our fellow-citizens in 
East Tennessee of this manifestation of active sympa- 
thy on the part of their Northern brethren has been 
most auspicious. It has impressed them with feelings 
toward their fellow-citizens of the North not soon to 
be effaced. It has shown them that the love of the 
Union with us is not a profession which satisfies itself 
with words but a sentiment which warms the heart. 

The following, with the omission of some personal 
allusions, is extracted from the " Knoxville Whig " of 
the 25th of June last: — 



70 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 

" In a late letter from Mr. Everett to the President of the East Ten- 
nessee Relief Association, theYact is announced that Massachusetts has 
contributed one hundred thousand dollars for the relief of the 
suffering and destitute people of East Tennessee. . . . This 
is one of the most remarkable and suggestive facts developed by this 
strange war. Between Tennessee and Massachusetts there has never 
been any common identity of habit or thought, and no close commer- 
cial or personal ties, which sometimes bind together the citizens of 
neighboring States. Indeed, we have been taught for many years 
(though we did not all believe) that the people of the North were 
narrow-minded, selfish, cold, and avaricious. But no sooner do they 
hear the tale of the destitution of a people fifteen hundred miles away, 
than, with the instincts of a common humanity, a common religion, 
and a common patriotism, they outstrip all others in the most gener- 
ous race of charity." 

After alluding to the cooperation of " all the leading 
men and all the churches, charitable associations, pub- 
lic and private institutions, and of the women, the boys, 
and the girls," the article proceeds : — 

" No one seems to have felt that he had done his duty unless he 
had contributed something. And all this was done from principle, 
not from enthusiasm. They regarded it as a sacred duty. They ever 
have been taught that charity and benevolence are duties which they 
cannot neglect. The Southern gentleman, rolling in his wealth, will 
live in the greatest elegance, and expend his money with princely 
prodigality on himself and his own circle, but he has a dull ear to the 
claims of charity outside of his circle. He is most liberal to himself, 
while the Northern man is more liberal to others. Herein is the dif- 
ference between the two. Hence public enterprises have been fos- 
tered and patronized, and the cold and bleak North has prospered and 
grown great ; while the rich and productive South has stood compar- 
atively still for want of that liberal public enterprise. 

" We say, from the bottom of our heart, all honor to glorious old 
Massachusetts. The people of that State are indeed our neighbors 



THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 7I 

and' our brethren. And that which is true of them is likewise true, 
p<ftsibly in a less degree, of all the people of the North. For, even 
fai'-off Maine has generously contributed her thousands for the relief 
of our suffering people. And so of nearly every State. Let us 
hold them in everlasting remembrance, and prove ourselves worthy 
of their benefactions." 

Respectfully submitted, by order of the Committee, 
to the contributors to the fund, by 

Edwaed Everett. 

P. S. — Since the foregoing Report was prepared, 
the further sum of twenty thousand five hundred 
dollars ($20,500) was, on the 3d of October, remitted 
to the Bankers of the Knoxville East Tennessee Relief 
Association, and an order filled for shoes to the amount 
of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500), to be 
forwarded to Knoxville, making, with the sums above * 
reported, an aggregate of one hundred thousand dol- 
lars ($100,000). 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTOES. 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 



TO THE 



FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF THE LOYAL AND SUF- 
FERING EAST TENNESSEEANS. 



Feb. 11, Teacher of a Public 

School $3 00 

Feb. 12, F. H. Peabody 100 00 

Lt.-Col. Peabody.... 50 00 

Boston Boy 5 00 

Feb. 13, Mrs. Sylvester Baker, 

jr., Yarmouth Port 5 00 
Feb. 15, James Gordon Clarke 50 00 

Mrs. S. Hooper 100 00 

A lady aged 83 5 00 

Feb. 16, Mrs. John Mackay.. . 100 00 

" Anonymous 20 00 

" Anonymous 5 00 

Charles P.Curtis.... 50 00 

Feb. 17, A friend 50 00 

" A Bank Clerk 3 00 

" For the destitute Ten- 

nesseans 20 00 

" Anonymous 5 00 

" Augustus Lowell 100 00 

" E. A. Raymond 30 00 

" Dorchester 1791, dated 

at Newton 200 00 

W. H. Gardiner 200 00 

Feb. 18, Ehsha T. Loring. ... 100 00 
" General James Dana, 

Charlestown 50 00 

Feb. 19, An old lady 50 00 

" Anonymous 4 00 

" Mrs. E. Wigglesworth 100 00 
" Octavius Pickering. . 30 00 

Feb. 20, A poor girl 1 00 

" Anonymous 2 00 

Feb. 21, Anonymous — a lady 100 00 
Feb. 22, Dr. James Jackson. . 50 00 

Carried up $1588 00 



Feb. 22, Brought up $1588 00 

" Children's Fair in Mt. 

Vernon Street 100 00 

" John Gardner 50 00 

William Everett 20 00 

W. F. Weld 100 00 

Dr. John Horaans. . . 100 00 
Mrs. William Pratt. . 250 00 
Mrs. G. H. Shaw ... 250 00 
" Anonymous, Jamaica 

Plain 50 00 

" Anonvmous 5 00 

Feb. 23, Sprague, Soule & Co. 500 00 

" Anonymous 50 00 

" Anonymous 50 00 

" Anonymous 6 00 

" Anonymous, Salem . 100 00 

" Edmund Munroe 50 00 

" Ladies of Needhara 

Plain 52 00 

Lydia S. Gale 100 00 

J. C. Hoadley, New 

Bedford 48 00 

Mrs. Henry Grew ... 100 00 
C. S. F., Keene. N. H. 20 00 
*' Nathaniel Francis ... 200 00 
" A Scotch woman... 10 00 
Feb. 24, Ignatius Sargent, Ma- 
chias, Me., the con- 
tribution of loyal 

citizens 100 00 

" Abbott Lawrence. ... 200 00 

*' James Parker 100 00 

Henry W. Pickering. 50 00 
" Miss Charlotte Harris 100 00 

Carried over $4348 00 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Feb. 24, Brought over $4348 00 

" Miss Isa E. Loring. . 200 00 

Miss F. L. Gray 25 00 

Miss A. G. Gray.... 20 00 

William Gray 500 00 

" George Howe 200 00 

" Annie 3 00 

" A child 1 00 

" W. Yarmouth 1 00 

Feb. 25, Mrs. G. Lee 100 00 

" A lady in Chestnut 

Street 25 00 

" James Sturgis 50 00 

P. C. Brooks 200 00 

•' Thomas J. Lee 50 00 

" Master Reginald Gray 5 00 
" Sam. S. Gray. 5 00 
" Wm. T. Andrews... 100 00 
" Dr. Charles Mifflin . . 50 00 
" Miss Louisa M. God- 

dard 50 00 

" C. G., a poor man's 

offering 5 00 

" Hon. A. H. Bullock . 100 00 
" William S. Rogers . . 50 00 
" Mrs. Abby M. Wales 50 00 

" Miss Wales 300 00 

" Anonymous 50 00 

" Anonymous 50 00 

" Anonymous 20 00 

Friend X 100 00 

Feb. 26, Mrs. Sally Batchelder 5 00 

W. W. Clapp^jr 25 00 

" Hon. George B. Upton 200 00 

A Salem lady 100 00 

George M. Wales.. . . 100 00 
" Rev. Dr. Burroughs. 50 00 
" Mrs. Dr. Hayward, 

Pemberton Square. 100 00 
Hon. Dwight Foster. 50 00 
" Master Willie R. Rich- 
ards 10 00 

" Charles Deane 100 00 

" Sam. Boyd, Marlboro' 100 00 

Joseph Whitney & Co. 100 00 

" Jonathan Ellis & Co. 100 00 

Mrs. B. D. Greene . . 200 00 

" George Livermore, 

Cambridge 100 00 

Sterne Morse 100 00 

Rev. Dr. N. L. Froth- 

ingham 50 00 

Turner Sargent 100 00 

Richard Leeds 50 00 

Johnson & Thompson 100 00 
" A friend from Brook- 
line 50 00 

J. C. Tyler & Co. . . . 100 00 
C. D. Head & T. H. 
Perkins 100 00 

Carried up $8648 00 



Feb. 26, Brought up $8648 00 

0. S. 20 00 

" A Bostonian 2 00 

Feb. 27, Dr. John Ware 50 00 

" John Wooldredge... 100 00 
" Boston Stock and Ex- 
change Board, by 
unanimous vote . . . 1000 00 

A Friend 10 00 

Charles E. Guild.... 25 00 
" Hon. Jacob Sleeper.. 100 00 
" Messrs. H. & L. Chase 60 00 
" Matthew Howland, 

New Bedford 50 00 

" Samuel Johnson 100 00 

Mrs. Thomas G. Gary 100 00 
A lady 20 00 

B. C. Ward 100 00 

" John J. Low, West 

Roxbury 25 00 

" Rev. Wm. Mountfort 50 00 
" A poor ex-Teacher.. 2 00 

" James M. Beebe 200 00 

Joseph B. Glover.. . . 100 00 
" Robert Waterston... 100 00 
" J. Huntington Wol- 

cott 200 00 

" Mrs. Wolcott 100 00 

" J.Randolph Coolidge 50 00 
" Hon. Stephen Fair- 
banks 100 00 

Hon. C. G. Loring.. 100 00 
" The Misses Lowell, 

Roxbury 200 00 

Mrs. Mary B. Park- 
man 25 00 

Geo 5 00 

Miss Eliza S. Quincy 50 00 

C. H. Gay 25 00 

" Martin L. Bradford. . 50 00 

R. C. Mackay 150 00 

" W. Mackay 50 00 

" Newton 20 00 

" W. from Newton 5 00 

" James Hunnewell, 

Charlestown 100 00 

" Rebecca P. AUyn, 

Cambridge 20 00 

" Carruth & Sweetser . 100 00 
Col. Charles R. Cod- 
man 50 00 

G. L 85 00 

" Jacob Stone, New- 

buryport 20 00 

" Col. Theodore Lyman 100 00 

" A. S. Stimpson 25 00 

" Master Stimpson, a 

birthday offering . . 2 00 

K Street 6 00 

" Anonymous 15 00 

Carried over. . . .$12,455 00 



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Feb. 27, Brought over $12,455 00 

" Clara and Lucy Rog- 
ers, twin sisters. . . 30 00 
" Martin Brimmer.... 250 00 
" Master Edward Gray 8 00 
" Mrs. Eliza Babcock.. 20 00 
" A lady in Greenfield, 

Mass 10 00 

Mrs. Henry W. Pick- 
ering 50 00 

" Harry Pickering .... 10 00 
" Thos. VVigglesworth. 100 00 
" Miss Mary Wiggles- 
worth 100 00 

Hon. Charles Allen.. 25 00 
" Dr. R. W. Hooper. . . 100 00 

Mrs. E. Hooper 100 00 

" Miss E. Hooper 50 00 

" Miss M. I. Hooper . . 50 00 
Miss Ellen S. Hooper 50 00 

" Marian Hooper 50 00 

" J. H. Eastburn 100 00 

Solomon Piper 100 00 

" Jacob A. Dresser 50 00 

" John Collamore 50 00 

■ " J. Wiley Edmands... 500 00 
Mrs. E. R. Mudge. . . 50 00 
" From the Sec. Church 
in Dorchester, of 
which from Mrs. 
Walter Baker $100, 
and from the Misses 

Oliver $50* 325 00 

Mason G. Parker.. . . 25 00 
George H. Tilton.... 25 0% 
William W. Tucker. 100 00 
" Field, Converse & Al- 
len 100 00 

Miss Eliz'th S. Bangs 30 00 

" An aged lady 30 00 

J. Eliot Cabot 50 00 

" Dresser, Stevens & 

Co 50 00 

J. E. Thayer & Bro. 300 00 

W. B. Spooner 200 00 

G. B. Gary 50 00 

Carried up $15,543 00 

* The donation from the Second Church 
in Dorchester was accompanied with the 
folio wins: note: — 

" Dorchester, 29th Feb., 1864. 

" Dkar Sir, — I have the pleasure of 
transmitting to you $325, a contribution 
for the Patriots of East Tennessee from 
friends in the Second Church, Dorchester. 
We observe a fourth Sabbath evening of 
each month as -a time for prayer for our 
country, and last evening thought it fitting 
to act as well as pray. 

" With much respect I am, 

'' Dear Sir, truly yours, 

[Signed] "James A. Means, Pastor." 

7* 



.1000 00 



Feb. 27, Brought up $15,543 00 

" Sydney Bartlett 100 00 

" J. Appleton Burnham 100 00 
" Chas. Hook Appleton 100 00 

" Charles Amory 100 00 

" Patrick Donahue. ... 100 00 

S. P. H 25 00 

Rev. C. T. Thayer. . 50 00 
Rice, Kendall & Co.. 100 00 
J. C. Howe & Co... 
" A crumb for the hun- 
gry Tennesseeans . 1 00 

Jos. S. Fay 100 00 

" H. P. Sturgis 100 00 

" Henry Lee 100 00 

" Henry Lee, jr 50 00 

" Mrs. Henry Lee, jr... 50 00 

W. H. Guild 50 00 

" Three workwomen. . 7 00 
" E. Mudge, Sawyer & 

Co 500 00 

" Col. Samuel Swett... 40 00 
Feb. 29, Benjamin S. Rotch. . 100 00 
" A Cordial Sympa- 
thizer 30 00 

" Mrs. C. G. Loring. . . 100 00 
Hon. J. C. Dodge, 

Cambridge 50 00 

" Henry Upham 100 00 

" William Parsons 100 00 

" Rev. Henry W. Foote 30 00 
" Albert D. Bosson, 

Chelsea (aged 10) . . 1 00 

" A Bostonian 25 00 

" Josiah Quincy, jr 100 00 

Prof F. J. Child, Cam- 
bridge 25 00 

W. S. Bullard 250 00 

" Hon. Artemas Hale, 

Bridgewater 20 00 

" Two ladies, do 15 00 

" Chas. Brewer & Co... 100 00 
" Alexander Moseley . . 
" A Boarder, 44 Sum- 
mer Street 

March 1, Daniel Hammond ... 

Alfred Winsor & Son 100 00 

" A friend 30 00 

" G. W. Bond 100 00 

Dr. Cliarles E. Ware. 50 00 
" James 0. Safford. . . 

C. H 

G. A. R 

" Dr. Jacob Bigelow.. 
" William A. Grover. 
William S. Whitwell. 

" Two widows 10 00 

" William Durant 100 00 

" Mrs. J. Augustus Pea- 
body 50 00 



100 00 

5 00 
50 00 



100 00 
5 00 

10 00 
150 00 
100 00 

50 00 



Carried over $20,272 00 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



March 1, Brought over $20,272 00 

Mrs. C. Wm. Loring. 50 00 
" Thomas G. Apple- 
ton 100 00 

" Mrs. N. Fairbanks . . 5 00 
Miss Ellen M.Ward. 100 00 
" Miss Julia E. Ward,. 100 00 
" Harrison P. Page, Wa- 

tertown 100 00 

" Dr. Chas. Beck, Cam- 
bridge 100 00 

" Mrs. Anna S. Moring 25 00 
" T. W. Wellington, 

Worcester 50 00 

" From a lady, Salem . 50 00 
" From a merchant, Sa- 
lem 50 00 

" Mrs. M. Lowell Put- 
nam 100 00 

" Mrs. S. A. Wright. . . 20 00 
" SethBemis, Newton. 50 00 

" Anonymous 100 00 

" A Poor New Hamp- 
shire Boy 5 00 

" Anonymous, Middle- 
borough 50 00 

Edward Cruft 50 00 

" Mrs. S. Cabot, Brook- 
line 100 00 

'* Mrs. E. W. Forbush. 20 00 

Dr. 0. W. Holmes.. . 100 00 

" Dr. H. Richardson . . 25 00 

Miss E. Ricliardson . 25 00 

Wm. B. Bradford ... 50 00 

" Messrs. Faulkner, 

Kimball & Co 500 00 

" Wellington Brothers, 

East Cambridge ... 50 00 

Elisha Atkins 100 00 

" Master Edwin F. At- 
kins 10 00 

" James L. Little 250 00 

" Wm. Munroe 200 00 

" Dr. Edward Reynolds 50 00 

« Miss Mason 50 00 

Miss S. L. Mason.. .. 25 00 

" Hon. P. Sprague 30 00 

Mrs. J. M 10 00 

" Samuel A. Way 100 00 

J. S. Barstow 100 00 

" George M. Soule 100 00 

" C. A. Cummings 25 00 

0. F. Hovey &Co... 500 00 

" Wm. P. Mason 200 00 

" Mrs. Daniel Denn v.. 100 00 
Dr. W. R. Lawrence. 100 00 
Joseph H. Billings... 50 00 

" Fees of referees 30 00 

" Amherst,by the hands 

of Col. W. S. Clark 250 00 

Carried up $24,527 00 



March 1, Brought up $24,527 00 

E. S 20 00 

Milton Hill 10 00 

" C. and J., two poor 

young men 4 00 

" Benjamin R. Gilbert. 50 00 
" Alexander Beal, Dor- 
chester 25 00 

" B. D. Emerson, Ja- 
maica Plain 100 00 

" Ezra Abbot, Cam- 
bridge 20 00 

A lady in Cambridge 20 00 

" John Bertram, Salem 200 00 

Hon. R. H. Dana, jr.. 30 00 

", Geo. W. Wheelright 50 00 

" Forest Hill St., Rox- 

bury 5 00 

Miss C. H. Wild .... 25 00 
" Weld Farm, West 

Roxbury 80 00 

" Edward Atkinson ... 50 00 
" D. W. Salisbury .... 100 00 
Burr Brothers & Co. 200 00 
" Henry L. Pierce, Dor- 
chester 100 00 

Francis Cabot 25 00 

" Arthur Searle 20 00 

C. K 10 00 

A. H 5 00 

" Messrs. Claflin,Saville 

&Co 100 00 

" Eaton, Cumings& Co. 100 00 

" Cambridge 50 00 

" Francis Williams, 

Quincy 100 00 

Mrs. E. H. D 25 00 

March 2, Henry Williams 25 00 

" A school-girl's month- 
ly allowance 1 00 

Uncle Ben, Savin Hill 10 00 
" A friend in Cambridge 10 00 

'■ Elbridge Torrey 10 00 

" Mrs. James Lawrence 200 00 
" Professor Asa Gray, 

Cambridge 20 00 

" L. Grozelier 10 00 

C.W.Clark 25 00 

" E 3 00 

" A friend in Roxbury. 6 00 

" A friend 10 00 

" Anonymous, by the 
hands of J. I. Bow- 
ditch 100 00 

" Mrs. N. I. Bowditch. 500 00 
" J. Ingersoll Bowditch 200 00 
" Mrs. J. I. Bowditch.. 100 00 

Wm. Claflin.: 200 00 

" Hon. Seth Ames 50 00 

" S. C. Thwing 100 00 

Carried over $27,631 00 



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March 2, Brought over $27,631 00 

Rev. Dr. Ellis & Mrs. 

Ellis, Charlestown. 100 00 
" Mrs. H. B. Rogers.. . 100 00 
" William Read & Son. 100 00 

" Anonymous 50 00 

" Master Jas. Lawrence, 

jr 2 00 

" Anonymous,in Mount 

Vernon Street 15 00 

D. P.Ives 100 00 

M. L. C 100 00 

I.E. Piper 5 00 

Rev. Dr. Bartol 50 00 

" Leverett Saltonstall.. 100 00 

Ariel Low & Co 100 00 

H. H. Hunnewell. ... 300 00 

Wm. Gray.jr 250 00 

Mrs. S. P. Miles,Brat- 

tleboro 50 00 

" Rev. R. Ellis, second 

donation 10 00 

A small boy 1 00 

Sam'l Frotliingham.. 50 00 
" Sam'l Frothingliam, 

jr 50 00 

" Dr. Henry Bartlett, 

Roxbury 50 00 

1 5 00 

S. G. Snelling 50 00 

Lindsley, Shaw & Co. 100 00 
Henry Wain Wright.. 100 00 
" From one who has 
very little of this 

world's goods 2 00 

" Howland, Hinckley & 

Co 50 00 

J. G. Kidder 100 00 

John A. Blanchard. . 100 00 

Naylor & Co 300 00 

Sewall, Day & Co.. . . 100 00 

" J. Field 200 00 

" Chas. H. Coffin, New- 

buryport 100 00 

" Mrs. M 28 00 

F 100 00 

Charles B. Poor 25 00 

"See Acts XX. 35".. 10 00 

J. W. Paige 100 00 

March 3, J. F. B. Marshall.. . . 50 00 
" Miss Harriet S. Hay- 
ward 100 00 

Lemuel Shaw 50 00 

E. W. B 5 00 

A. B. Almon, Salem. 30 00 

" George H. Gray and 

Dantbrth 200 00 

Hon. Albert Fearing. 100 00 
Hon. Rob't C. Win- 
throp 50 00 

Carried up $31,269 00 



March 3, Brought up $31,269 00 

George D.Welles 50 00 

" OHver Ditson 100 00 

E. B. Phillips 25 00 

Mrs. R. G. Shaw.... 200 00 
" Miss Louisa Shaw. . . 25 00 
" Jona. French, Rox- 

" bury 100 00 

" Mrs. James Sturgis. . 50 00 

" John G. Tappan 100 00 

" Charles F. Bradford, 

Roxbury 50 00 

Charles K. Cobb .... 50 00 

" George J. Fiske 100 00 

" Homer Bartlett 50 00 

" "Homo Sum" 8 00 

" James W. Sever 50 00 

" Hon. Edward Brooks 200 00 

" Francis Brooks 100 00 

" Joseph E. Worcester, 

Cambridge 100 00 

" A New England Sis- 
ter to her brave and 
suffering young sis- 
ters in 10. Tennessee 5 00 

" George Gardner 300 00 

E. M. and E. A. C... 10 00 

Charles Heath 50 00 

" Mrs. Charles Heath.. 50 00 

" Miss E. Parsons 50 00 

" The contents of a sav- 
ings-bank from two 

little boys 2 00 

S. Willard& Son.... 100 00 

J. C. W 25 00 

" Larkin, Stackpole & 

Co 100 00 

" A Book-keeper 10 00 

Edwaj-d S. Philbrick. 100 00 

Beacon Hill 15 00 

Fishers & Chapin.. . . 100 00 

" From R 1 00 

From 509 5 00 

" Samuel May 200 00 

" John J. May 100 00 

Natli'l Winsor & Son 100 00 
William S.Eaton... 50 00 

Thomas Groom 50 00 

Maguire & Campbell. 50 00 

" L. A. Shattuck 50 00 

Reuben A. Richards. 50 00 

Franklin King 50 00 

" From Minnie & Nelly 10 00 

T. E. M 5 00 

" Francis Bacon lOO 00 

William Ropes lOO 00 

" E. L 10 00 

W. H. R 5 00 

Isaac Thacher lOO 00 

Elizabeth J. Stone... lO 00 

Carried over. . . .$ 34,590 00 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



March 3, Brought over $34,590 00 

David W.Hodgdon.. 50 00 
D. A. Dwiglit & Co.. 100 00 
William Perkins.... 100 00 
" Robert S. Perkins. . . 50 00 
J.W. P. Abbott, West- 
ford 25 00 

" William Raymond... 10 00 

March 4, Otis Daniel 200 00 

F. Snow & Co 100 00 

" Edward 0. Banvard, 

Calais, Maine 50 00 

" The Misses Snow, 

Roxbury 200 00 

" D. C, Calais, Maine. 5 00 

M 25 00 

C. T 5 00 

•' Chief Justice Bigelow 50 00 

" Sidney Homer 100 00 

Mrs. H. S 15 00 

" Hon. George Morey. 50 00 
" Mrs. Sarah Johnson. 50 00 

" R. E.Robbins 250 00 

" A Physician, who 
promises the same 
every Saturday for 

five weeks 10 00 

" Dane, Dana & Co. . . . 100 00 

" Avon Place 30 00 

" Little, Brown & Co.. 200 00 
" Capt. Arthur H.Clark 20 00 
Benjamin C. Clark.. 20 00 
" Miss Donnison, Cam- 
bridge .• 50 00 

Hon. James Savage.. 200 00 

Prof. W. B. Rogers. 25 00 

" William Sprague.... 100 00 

Thos. G. Bradford... 25 00 

" Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 

S. Beal, Kingston.. 50 00 
" George Draper, Hope- 
dale, Mass 50 00 

" Rev. Dr. George Put- 
nam, Roxbury 100 00 

" Jona. B. Bright, Wal- 

tham 20 00 

" Andrew Warren, do.. 5 00 

0. \V. Baker, do 5 00 

" Newell Sherman, do.. 5 00 

Marshall Smith, do.. 3 00 

" Daniel French, do.... 5 00 

" Dorus Clarke, do. . . . 5 00 

Dr. R. S. Warren, do. 5 00 

" Perez Smitli, do 5 00 

" Rufus Stickney, do.. 100 
" Cornelius Irish, do... 1 00 
" Phineas Upliam, do.. 5 00 

Wm. Jewell, do 5 00 

" George Lawton, do. . 10 00 
John Roberts, do... 10 00 

Carried up $37,095 00 



March 4, Brought up $37,095 00 

C. L. Mosely, Wal- 
tham 5 00 

" Jarvis Lewis, do 2 00 

Wm.E. Allen, do.... 3 00 

Federalist 30 00 

Mrs. David Sears.... 100 00 

C. L. F. R 50 00 

Dr. Wm. W. Morland 20 00 

" In a blank envelope. . 20 00 

Chandler & Co 100 00 

J. A. & W. Bird & Co. 50 00 

" Seth Turner, Ran- 
dolph 50 00 

" '63 1 00 

" Walter Channing, M. 

D 100 00 

" Samuel B. Pierce ... 50 00 

AWebfoot 10 00 

A Widow 20 00 

Benj. Thaxter 50 00 

" Anonymous, by the 
hands of J. I. Bow- 
ditch 150 00 

W. S. Appleton 100 00 

" Daniel N. Spooner... 100 00 
George F. Parkman . 200 00 

William Beals 100 00 

Francis B. Hayes.. . . 100 00 

N. B. Gibbs 100 00 

Henry B. Rogers 500 00 

John A. Dod'd & Co.. 100 00 

" A friend 5 00 

J. W. Wheelwright.. 50 00 

" E. A. Boardman .... 30 00 
Dr. G. C. Shattuck. . 100 00 

C. C. Gilbert 50 00 

David W. Williams, 
Roxbury 100 00 

" Charles Emery 20 00 

March 5, Geo. C. Lord, Newton 100 00 
Charles H. Lord, do.. 100 00 
Edward W. Lord, do. 28 00 

H. Williams, do 10 00 

Nash,Spaulding&Co. 300 00 

A. F. — Salem 5 00 

F. H. M 5 00 

" Hon. Emory Wash- 
burn 50 00 

" James Hay ward 100 00 

" From Longwood .... 5 00 
S. W. Rodman 50 00 

'■ Anonymous 10 00 

" John Cormerais 25 00 

Dr. John Dean 20 00 

J. J. Dixwell 50 00 

" Mrs. Anna Parker. . . 50 00 
Grant, Warren & Co. 300 00 
George R. RusseU. . . 200 00 

" Mrs. F. C. Paine .... 25 00 

Carried over. . . .$40,994 00 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



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1 00 

30 00 

100 00 



March 5, Brought over |40,994 00 

" Gardner, Dexter & 

^ Co 100 00 

James Read 100 00 

^" Mrs. James Read. .. 100 00 

^^ Augustine Heard... 100 00 

A httle bo3', 6 years 
oldjiis own money 

Ellice 

Charles W. Parker.' 

Joshua Stetson 100 00 

" Hon. S.Williston, E. 

Hampton 100 00 

Anonymous; proc'ds 
of the sale of un- 
necessary silver 

plate 12 00 

E. F. Waters 25 00 

"^ The Misses Newman 200 00 

S" ^- i'erkins, Italy 100 00 

Curtis & Co 100 00 

L,izzie Leland 20 00 

1^' Edward Motley 50 00 

From three friends . 85 00 

;; D B. Flint 60 00 

Charles L. Young. . 50 00 
" Waldo Maynard. ... 50 00 

" Francis Bassett 100 00 

Mrs. W. C. Codman 50 00 
Thomas Worcester. 100 00 

"^ Aunt Betsey 5 OO 

Dr.Le Baron Russell 50 00 

David B. Sewall, 

Fryeburg, Me. . . . 

" Santuit River, Cotuit 

March 7, A. A. Lawrence, jr., 

BrookHne .' 50 00 

S. W. Vinson, clerk 6 00 

" T. Lee lOO 00 

John H. Thorndike. 50 00 
" Mrs. E. Miller and 

Charles E. Miller, 

Quincy loo 00 

Mrs. J. G. Howard, 
South Braintree. . 
" Samuel Gilbert, Bos- 
ton 

" Samuel Gilbert 

Dorchester .... 
" George W. Harding, 

do- 100 00 

W. C. Harding, Rox- 
bury 100 00 

^fli^^'^- •■ • 10 00 

Utncers and men of 
the 44th Regiment 
Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers * 1000 00 



6 00 
5 00 



March 7, Brought up $44,408 00 

Dana, Farrar& Hyde 200 00 

Crab Apple 5 oO 

Foster & Taylor 200 00 

Otis Norcross 100 00 

His Honor, F. W. 

Lincoln, Jr., Mayor 50 00 
Hon. J. Z. Goodrich 500 00 
Bigelow, Brothers & 

Kennard 100 00 

^'a^>;-;; 10 00 

Mrs. N. H. Emmons 100 00 
A friend in Cam- 

^bri'ige 20 00 

G. M., Norfolk 

M 1 Q A ^^"o'J' 10 00 

March 8, A dictate of con- 
science for the suf- 
fering Loyalists of 
East Tennessee... 200 00 
" A friend to the good 

-^,^a"se. 20 00 

Edward D. Peters & 

„ ^"•••.•: 300 00 

bamuel Atherton... 50 00 

;: f ^^-S 50 00 

Anonymous, from 

Worcester 5 qO 

" Eben C. Stanwood 

„ <^ Co 100 00 

Brewster, Sweet & 

^Co 100 00 

George N. Hastings, 
(12 years) E. Cam- 
bridge 1 00 

Walter H. Whitney, 
(lOyears) E.Cam- 
bridge 1 00 

Carried over.. $46,530 00 



jr., 



10 00 
50 00 
50 00 



Carried up $44,408 00 

The very liberal donation of the 44th 



Regiment was accompanied by the fol- 
io wmg letter: — 
. „ ^ " Boston, March 5, 1864. 

Hon. Edward Everett — 
,, ".^?''iy S'l'- Through the liberality of 
their fellow-citizens, the Regiment which 
1 have the honor to command, received a 
Regimental Fund of $5000. A portion of 
tois money has been applied to the use of 
the Regiment, — a portion I retain for fur- 
ther need of the Regiment. Upon consul- 
tation with VVm.Gra3'|Esq., Treasurer of 
the fund, and with my field oificers, and 
feeling sure that it will meet the approval 
of the original donors, I have decided to 
devote $1000 to the relief of the suffering 
loyalists of p:ast Tennessee, which please 
accept in behalf of the men and officers of 
the 44th Regt. M. V. M. 

" I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
" Francis L. Lee, 
"Col. 44th Regt.M.V.M." 



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March 8, Brought over. . . .$46,530 00 
" William Brigham. . . 50 00 

" Kobert B. Storer ... 50 00 

" "Somebody" 50 00 

" W. P. Pierce 200 00 

" P. Anderson, Lowell 25 00 

Jas. W. Walworth.. 100 00 

" Isaac Livermore.. . . 50 00 

An old lady 50 00 

O.H.Sampson 25 00 

" William A. Bangs . . 25 00 
" J. Dixwell Thomp- 
son 25 00 

The following most liberal contri- 
butions to the fund, to the amount of 
$4,773, were obtained in Franklin St. 
and vicinity, through the energetic and 
disinterested cooperation of Mr. George 
H. Braman, of No. 51 Frankhn St. : — 

March 8, Jordan, Marsh & Co. 500 00 
" Friend of the Coun- 
try 500 00 

" Wilson, Hamilton & 

Co 250 00 

" J. C. Burrage & Co. 250 00 
" Hogg, Brown & Tay- 
lor 250 00 

Parker,Wilder & Co. 240 00 
" Denny, Eice & Co.. 300 00 

" Washburn, Welch & 

Carr 200 00 

" Haughton, Sawyer & 

Co 200 00 

" Almy, Patterson & 

Co 200 00 

" Pierce, Bros. & Co.. 100 00 

" King, Goodridge & 

Co 100 00 

" Sweetzer, Swan &. 

Blodget 100 00 

" Burrage, Bros. & Co. 100 00 

" George S. Winslow 

& Co 100 00 

" Wilkinson, Lamb & 

Co 100 00 

«' J. C. Converse & Co. 100 00 

" Anderson, Heath & 

Co 100 00 

" Hill, Danforth & Co. 100 00 

" Ordway, Tebbetts & 

Co 100 00 

" John C. Morse & Co. 50 00 

" Allen, Lj^e & Co... 50 00 

" Mrs. Isaac Fenno. . . 50 00 

" Thayer, Badger & * 

Plimpton 50 00 

" Stone, Wood & Co.. 50 00 
" Woodman, Horse- 
well & Co 50 00 

Carried up $51,370 00 



March 8, Brought up $51,370 00 

C. Curry 50 00 

H. E. Wright & Co.. 50 00 

F. A. Hawley & Co. 50 00 
" Bliss, WhitingjPierce 

& McKenna 50 00 

" Clerks at Jordan, 

Marsh & Co 82 00 

" Clerks at Ordway, 

Tebbetts & Co.... 31 00 
" Whitney, Grain & 

Marr 25 00 

Gross, Daniels & Co. 25 00 
" Whitten, Burdett & 

Young 25 00 

" Washburn, Foque & 

Co 25 00 

" Sargent, Brothers & 

Co 25 00 

" Lewis Coleman & Co. 25 00 
" Geo. W. Simmons & 

Co 25 00 

" F. F. Wheelock & 

Co 20 00 

N. H. Clark 20 00 

" Devonshire Street. . 10 00 

" George Alden 5 00 



March 9, No. 58 Milk Street. . 25 00 
" Thomas B. Wales.. 100 00 

" Levi Bartlett & Co. . 100 00 

" Hon. Stephen Salis- 

" bury, Worcester.. 300 00 

" George C. Kichard- 

son 200 00 

H 25 00 

J. P. Thorndike.... 100 00 
" A lady in Berk- 
shire 10 00 

" Edward N. Perkins, 

Jamaica Plain ... 50 00 

Keene 10 00 

Edward S. Tobey. . . 200 00 
" Anonymous, by the 
hand of E. S. To- 
bey 25 00 

" Ex-Gov'nor Lincoln 100 00 

" Gardner Brewer & 

Co 200 00 

" Geo. P. Hayward & 

Co 25 00 

J. C. B., Lexington. 25 00 

William Dall 100 00 

" Two ladies in Rox- 

bury 20 00 

" Miss Henrietta Sar- 
gent 20 00 

" Israel Whitney 25 00 

" Nathan Matthews . . 100 00 



Carried over... $53,673 00 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS. 



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March 9, Brought over $53,673 00 

Walter H. Whitney, 
second donation . . 1 00 

« M. D 10 00 

" Proceeds of Mr. Sid- 

dons's reading. . . . 100 00 

March 10, Mrs. E. D. H 5 00 

" Kev. Geo. M. Rice, 

Westford 5 00 

" Anonymous 100 00 

B.S., 29BowdoinSt. 25 00 
" Citizens of Hallow- 
ell, Me., per Justin 

E. Smith 208 00 

" John H. Sturgis .... 50 00 

" J. P. Preston 100 00 

William F. Matchett 25 00 
" Lucretia A. R., Bal- 
timore, Md 5 00 

" Drop in the hucket. 5 00 
" Soldiers' Aid Soc'ty, 
Winthrop, by the 
hand of Mrs. J. C. 
Hall, Treasurer . . 50 00 
Samuel G. Ward. . . 100 00 
" Mrs. T. W. Ward. . 100 00 

" Benj. Abbott 25 00 

W 10 00 

Mrs. H 100 00 

" Mrs. Nathan Apple- 
ton 100 00 

" Hon. Richard Fletch- 
er 100 00 

H.E.J 5 00 

" Mrs. Judge Put- 
nam* 30 00 

" J. M.Forbes 250 00 

" Hon. James Arnold, 

New Bedford 500 00 

E. S. Dixwell 20 00 

" Hon. David Sears . . 150 00 
" A Teacher 2 00 

The following sums were remitted 
by Rev. C. H. Brigham, being, with 
the exception of the donation of Mr. 
Baylies, contributed by the First Con- 
gregational Church in Taunton : t 

Samuel B. King 100 00 

Theodore Dean 100 00 

Edmund Baylies 100 00 

Mrs. George A. Crocker 50 00 

Timothy Gordon 50 00 

Carried up $56,249 00 

* This venerable lady contributed by 
her needle-work over a hundred dollars 
to the fan- of the Sanitarj' Commission. 

t The liberal contribution from the 
First Congregational Society in Taunton 
was announced iu a letter from its pastor, 



I Brought up $5( 

I Francis B. Dean 

'. Joseph Dean 

' Artemas Briggs 

! Sylvanus N. Staples 

j Allen Presbrey 

j Charles R. Atwood 

I Charles Robinson 

Enoch Robinson 

William Brewster 

j Le Baron B. Church 

Jesse Hartshorn 

' A. King Williams 

j James Henry Sproat 

; Nathan A Skinner 

j Charles H. Brigham 

■ Samuel 0. Dunbar 

I Henry C. Perry 

Edwin Keith 

C. W. Sproat and W. E. Fuller 

Billings T. Presbrey 

James P. Ellis 

Mrs. G. L. Macomber 

Wm. T. Crandell 

Mrs. G. C. Converse 



March 10, Mrs. J. W 

' " Chas. Hickling, Rox- 

bury 

" A " mite-y man of 

Salem" 

" Lawton 

" Two ladies 

D. W. H 

" Hartley, Lord & Co. 
George T. Rice, 

Worcester 

JVIarch 11, A Son of Massachu- 
setts, Charlestown, 

N. H 

" F. Nickerson & Co. . 
" Rev. Dr. S. K. Loth- 



5,249 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


25 00 


25 00 


25 00 


25 00 


25 00 


25 00 


20 00 


20 00 


20 00 


20 00 


20 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


7 00 


5 00 


5 00 


5 00 


2 00 


1 00 



25 00 

50 00 

10 00 
10 00 
22 00 
25 00 
100 00 

100 00 



5 00 
100 00 



rop 10 00 

Carried over. . .$57,211 00 



Rev. Charles H. Brigham, from which, 
without his permission, I venture to make 
an extract, for the sake of showing the 
noble spirit that animates that commu- 
nity: — 

" Taunton, March M, 1864. 
" Deak Sir, — On Sunday last, accord- 
ing to the suggestion of your circular ad- 
dress, I called the attention of my people, 
in a special sermon, to the sufferings of 
the Patriots in East Tennessee, and asked 
for their offerings. In two days I have re- 
ceived $740, which will probably become 
$800 or $900, as the smaller subscriptions 
come iu. This is from my own congrega- 
tion." 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



March 11, Brought over $57,211 00 

M. W 5 00 

" Citizens of Amherst, 
N. H., by the 
hands of B. B. 

David 282 00 

Master Henry Eliot 

Babcock 6 00 

James C. Ward, Nor- 
thampton 25 00 

P. Holmes, Kingston 100 00 
Wm. S. Adams, do.. 100 00 

Sabin & Page 30 00 

Mrs. D. C , Lan- 
caster, Mass 10 00 

Milton Railway 2 00 

A friend 5 00 

Mrs. J. Gardner 50 00 

"Brighton " 100 00 

Wm. Knowlton, Up- 
ton 100 00 

Franklin Haven. ... 100 00 
Proprietors of the 
" Christian Exam- 
iner " 20 00 

George Allen 50 00 

Boston Boy, — the 
same who gave the 
donation on the 12th 

Feb 10 00 

" Mrs. Abbott 25 00 

Tremont 50 00 

" Peter Smith, Ando- 

ver, Mass 100 00 

Two sisters, M. & A. 6 00 

March 12, Edwin Upton 50 00 

" Francis Draper, Cam- 
bridge 50 00 

" Alpheus Hardy & 

Co 100 00 

" Webster & Co 100 00 

" Sampson Reed 50 00 

A. H 20 00 

" Reed, Cutler & Co. 100 00 

" Anonymous 25 00 

" E. B. Welch 50 00 

The Centre Church 
in Haverhill, by 
the hand of Rev. 

Mr. Munger 286 00 

" D. H. B 8 00 

" Anonymous 40 00 

E. H 25 00 

" Edward Warren, M. 
D., Newton Lower 

Falls 25 00 

" Physician's second 

week's donation. . 10 00 
" Currier & Greeley.. 100 00 
" A friend 10 00 



Carried up 



3,434 00 



Brought up ... . $59,434 00 
March 12, Mrs. J. M. Codman, 

Brookline 50 00 

W. T 5 00 

" First Church in Taun- 
ton, additional. ... 65 00 

March 14, A 6 00 

" Rev. Dr. C. A. Bar- 
tol, a second dona- 
tion of 50 00 

" Mrs. Nancy White. . 50 00 

" A school-boy 1 00 

George Hews 25 00 

C. Ellis, M.D 60 00 

" E. H. Eldredge .... 100 00 

Rolfe Eldredge 50 00 

" The venerable Presi- 
dent Quincy 100 00 

" Anonymous 25 00 

" Ditto 25 00 

" Wm. M. Byrnes.... 20 00 

" G. Rogers 20 00 

" Isaac F Dobson.... 100 00 

Cash 20 00 

J. W. B 50 00 

S. E. P 60 00 

R. D. R 60 00 

F. C 50 00 

W. T. G 50 00 

P. S. C 25 00 

Cash 20 00 

W. P.,jr 25 00 

" Francis Peabody... 100 00 

Cash 6 00 

" W. Amory 100 00 

Cash 25 00 

J.P.Gardner 50 00 

J. D. Bates 50 00 

Cash 25 00 

" Ditto 25 00 

Ditto 100 00 

" G. M. Barnard 100 00 

" T. Quincy Browne. 50 00 

Iasigi,Goddard&Co. 300 00 

Miss M. G. Loring.. 60 00 

O 2 00 

Waldo Flint 50 00 

" A friend to the suf- 
fering 10 00 

" A little girl 1 00 

" Anonymous 10 00 

" Mrs. Tyler Bigelow, 

Watertown 100 00 

" Mrs.Theodore Chase 50 00 

March 16, Anonymous 10 00 

" A lady of Bridge- 
water 6 00 

" A. Bummer, Cam- 
bridge 6 00 

W. P. H., Cambridge 1 00 

Carried over. . . $61,739 00 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



85 



Brought over $61,739 00 

March 15, Mary Leary, Halifax, 
N. S., now of West 

Newton 2 00 

" Dabney & Cunning- 

liam 50 00 

" From a lady in New 

Hampshire 100 00 

A friend 25 00 

G. Kace 10 00 

" A poor old Duster.. 2 00 

J. R. H 100 00 

" * Unitarian Society 

at Watertown 415 60 

The following sums were contrib- 
uted by the pupils of Mr. T. Prentiss 
Allen's School, New Bedford t : — 

M. Morris Howland 2 00 

A. Thornton 2 00 

E. Allen 2 00 

Carried up $82,449 60 

* The contribution from the Unitarian 
Society at Watertown was accompanied 
by the following letter from its Pastor: — 

" Watertown, 14th March, 1864. 

" Deak Sir, — Please devote the en- 
closed contribution from the Unitarian 
Society in this place to the sufferers in 
East Tennessee. 

" This society is the representative of the 
old territorial parish, which was founded 
in the summer of 1630, with Rev. George 
Phillips for Pastor. But the original ter- 
ritory has shrunken to a little town, which 
was "lately still further reduced by the 
scission of that portion now called Bel- 
mont, and the population of Watertown 
is now shared by four other societies be- 
sides our own. 

" This contribution would have been 
larger if several of my parishioners had 
not already liberally subscribed at their 
places of business in Boston. 

" But accept the offering made at the 
close of service last Sunday, for brothers 
who sufier for their dear country's cause 
and glory. 

" I am very respectfully yours, 
[Signed] "J. Weiss." 

t The subscription paper at ISlv. Allen's 
school had the following caption; — 

" The loj'al boys of Massachusetts to 
the loyal boys of Tennessee send greet- 
ing: Having heard through Col. Taylor 
of the hardships and the privations that 
you have endured, while your fathers and 
our fathers have been struggling side by 
side, for the support of the Union cause 
and in defence of liberty, and feeling that, 
although remotely situated, we are broth- 



Brought up $62,449 60 

Walter Clifford 2 00 

G. Willis 2 00 

R. Coggcshall 1 00 

Arthur Clifford 2 00 

P. R. Almy 1 00 

B. R. Tucker 1 00 

W. A. Bartlett 1 00 

G. P. Tucker 1 00 

A. G. Swift 2 00 

Horace Wood 1 00 

E. C. Dubois 1 00 

E.D.Antony 100 

E. P. Tucker 1 00 

W. Almy 2 00 

C. Almy 1 00 

J. Stoddard 10 00 

E. Gordon 1 00 

H.Swift 2 00 

P. Swift 1 00 

Morgan Rotch 2 00 

JohnB. Gerrish 2 00 

James H. Harris 5 00 

W. M. Thomp 1 00 

H. B.Stone 2 00 

J. R. Chapman 2 00 

Charles Almy 1 00 

Henry A. Delano 1 00 

D. L. Parker 1 00 

J. Frank Perry 1 00 

R. G. N. Swift 1 00 

S, R. Potter 3 00 

J. C. Tripp 1 00 

Willard Nye, jr 1 00 

J. N. Faulkner 2 00 

C.N. Swift 1 00 

The Master of the School 8 00 



March 15, Jona. Howland, New 

Bedford 50 00 

" Capt. Latham Croos, 

do 50 00 

W. R. Austin, Dor- 
chester 25 00 

" From a boy, his own 

money 4 00 

A little girl, L. S. . . 3 00 



Carried over . . . .$62,650 60 

ers and have a united interest in the pros- 
perity of our glorious country, we wish to 
manifest to you our sympathy; and as we 
have been prosperous while you have been 
suffering, we wish to send you a trifle from 
our abundance. Accept then these con- 
tributions from our own private stores, 
and be assured we are happy to do our 
part toward relieving your wants and en- 
couraging you to hold out, until better 
days shall come, as we hope they wiU 
soon come to you." 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Brought over. . . .§62,650 60 
March 15, Congregational Ch. 
in Shrevvsb'y.frora 
tlie Pastor, Kev. 

Wm.McGinley... 53 50 

E. H 1 00 

P. A. Gay 50 00 

N. G. Manson 50 00 

" Pirst Evangelical 
Cong'gational Ch. 
in Cambridgeport. 234 92 

March 16, A. L 5 00 

" Sympathizer 5 00 

" Joseph Willard 25 00 

J. K. P 5 00 

" Two ladies of North- 

horough 20 00 

" Mrs. Deborah Pow- 
ers, Lansinb'rg, N. 
Y., remitted by D. 
Powers & Sons ... 500 00 
" Eev. S M. Worces- 
ter, Salem 10 00 

" Sophy Hayes 20 00 

Hon. Jno. H.Clifford, 

New Bedford .... 100 00 

A lady 10 00 

Edward Page 50 00 

W.C.Cabot 25 00 

W. &R 100 00 

" Mrs. Gam'l Bradford 50 00 
" George P. Bradford. 5 00 
" Samuel May, jr., Lei- 
cester 10 00 

" William B. Howes, 

Salem 100 00 

A. C 50 00 

" Amos Cummings... 50 00 
■" Two ladies in Cam- 
bridge 10 00 

" F. Vinton 5 00 

March 17, A Little Help 20 00 

" Claire A. L. Rice, 

Danvers Centre.. 5 00 

r. &C 2 00 

" Benj. B. Howard ... 50 00 
" Dorr, Parks & Co... 75 00 
" Citizens of Barnsta- 
ble, forwarded by 
tlie Selectmen ... 338 00 
" Centre Street, Dor- 
chester 20 00 

J. H. Ward 100 00 

" Walter Aiken, 

Franklin, N.H... 10 00 

N. P. G., a Uttle girl 5 00 

Cash 10 00 

" Osborn Howes 100 00 

Miss M. E. Davis .. 10 00 

" Samuel T. Morse.. 25 00 



Carried up.... $64,965 02 



Brought up. . . .$64,965 02 
March 17, J. Amory Davis, 

Dorcliester 100 00 

Edward Russell, do 50 00 
H. I. Nazro, do 25 00 

Setli Pettee, do 10 00 

F. W. G. May, do 10 00 

G. M. Weymouth, do 5 00 
March 18, Joseph A. White . . 50 00 

P 8 00 

F. N. P 5 00 

" Miss Arabella Rice, 
Portsmouth, N. 

H 500 00 

" Benjamin Emerson, 

Pittsfield, N. H... 5 00 
" Ebenezer Collamore, 

Charlestown 50 00 

A. B. Berlin 5 00 

George May 100 00 

Daniels, Kendall & 

Co 100 00 

" From the friends of 
the sufferers in 
East Tennessee, 

Eastport, Me 140 00 

R. R. Endicott, 

Beverly 25 00 

Ira E. Gray 20 00 

March 19, Proceeds of a vocal 
and instrumental 
concert at Plym- 
outh 58 00 

Q. H. D.'s 10 00 

" Oliver Prescott, New 

Bedford 50 00 

" Shawmut Sabbath 
School, by the 
hands of Wm. T. 
Shapleigh, Treas- 
urer 119 77 

" The Physician's 
third week's sub- 
scription 10 00 

" S. A 5 00 

J. F 5 00 

P. D. W 5 00 

" B. B 5 00 

J. D. R 5 00 

L. S. C 5 00 

J. A. T 5 00 

" C. T. F 5 00 

R. M 5 00 

L. L 5 00 

S. H 5 00 

" Wm. J. Rotch, New- 
Bedford 100 00 

" Lyman Tiffany .... 100 00 
" J. P. Faulkner, 

North Billerica... 25 00 



Carried over 



3,695 79 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



87 



Brought over . . .$66,695 79 
March 19, John Perley, Salem. 30 00 
" Mrs. I'ersis K. Park- 
hurst, Tenipleton, 

Mass 11 00 

March 21, Martha Hooper Lee 50 00 
" Miss Abis;ail Locke, 

Templeton 25 00 

A friend 20 00 

L. M 10 00 

W. B. R 5 00 

W. C. Tenney, 
Marlborough, 

Mass 50 00 

" D. Denny Kice, 
(aged 7 years) 

Koxbury 1 21 

" L. andC. — two little 

boys — $1 50 each 3 00 
" John Bartlett, Cam- 
bridge 20 00 

" Citizens of Lexing- 
ton, — chiefly the 
product of a col- 
lection taken in 
the First Parish 
Church, — by the 
hands of L. J. 

Livermore 281 25 

" R. B. Forbes 100 00 

" Proceeds of an ama- 
teur concert given 
March 19tli, at 
Messrs. Chicker- 
ing's Rooms which 
were generously 
offered lor the occa- 
sion, by the hands 
of Dr. D. D. Slade 600 00 
" Collection taken in 
the First Church 
in Abington, re- 
mitted by Rev. F. 

R. Abbe 70 00 

" Collection taken in 
the Shepard Con- 
gregational Soci- 
ety, Cambridge, 
remitted by S. T. 

Farwell 165 50 

" Additional from the 
1st Evang. Con- 
gregational Ch. at 
Cambridgeport. . . 12 00 
George H. Kuhn ... 100 00 

S. F. Jenkins 100 00 

A. S. Woodworth . 25 00 
March 22, Teachers and pupils 
of the Berkshire 
Family School, at 

Carried up.... $68,374 75 



Brought up $68,374 75 

Stockbridge, from 
the Principal, Fer- 
dinand Hoffman.. 67 50 
March 22, W. Chadbourne ... 100 00 

" A few Citizens of 

Danvers 178 00 

" AllenGannett, Lynn- 
field 2 00 

" Proceeds of a dra- 
matic exhibition 
and concert given 
by the young la- 
dies and gentlemen 
connected with the 
Mayflower Divis- 
ion, No. 33, S. of 
T. of Province- 
town, Mass., re- 
mitted by James 

Gifford 100 00 

E 5 00 

" Several young ladies 67 00 
Elmer Townsend . . 50 00 

" Collection taken at 
Trinity Church on 
Sunday last, (in- 
cluding a check for 
$200, from H. W. 
Sargent, Esq., of 
the State of New 
York), by the 
hands of the Sen- 
ior Warden of the 
Church 385 00 

" Shepard Congrega- 
tional Society of 
Cambridge, addi- 
tional 30 00 

"A Graft of the Brok- 
ers' Board" 50 00 

" Anonymous 5 00 

" Jonathan Bourne, jr. 

New Bedford 100 00 

E.J 20 00 

A little girl 5 00 

" Collection taken in 
the First Congre- 
gational Society of 
Roj'alston, remit- 
ted by Hon. George 
Whitney 60 00 

" Citizens of Plym- 
outh, through An- 
drew L. Russell, 
Esq. (this is in ad- 
dition to the $58 
received from Ply- 
mouth on the 19th, 
making in all $700) 642 00 

Carried over. . . . $70,241 25 



88 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Brought over $70,2il 25 

March 22, From the ladies and 
gentle'n of Brook- 
line, remitted b}' 
J. Murray Howe, . 
Esq 437 00 

" Collections made at 
the Unitarian, Or- 
thodox, and Uni- 
versalist Societies 
in W. Cambridge, 
— in addition to 
$200 from J. Field 
and $100 from G. 
H. Gray, previous- 
ly acknowledged 466 56 

" *George F. Bartlett, 
New Bedford, six 
Eng. sovereigns, 

valued at 43 00 

March 23, Baptist Church in 
Sharon, by the 
hands of Mr. C. 
D. Hixon 14 10 

" A lady in Salem ... 50 00 

" Hon. Samuel Hoop- 
er, Washington . . 200 00 

" The family of C. 
Lord, Buckland, 
Mass 6 10 

" C. M. Owen, Stock- 
bridge 50 00 

" Simeon N. Perry, 

Walpole, N. H. . . . 80 00 

" F. A. Sawyer 50 00 

Carried up $71,588 01 

* Mr Bartlett's donation was accom- 
panied by the following interesting letter 
to Mr. Everett: — 

" New Bedfokd, ^farch 21, 1864. 
" Dear Sin, — In response to Colonel 
Taylor's touching appeal, in behalf of our 
suffering loyal brethren in Kast Tennes- 
see, I cheerfully part with the only 
thing saved from the wbaleship ' Lafay- 
ette,' burned bv the Pirate 'Alabama,' 
April 15th, ISCS', off Fernando de Noron- 
ha, and enclose the same to you here- 
with, viz. (6) Six English sovereigns, 
worth about forty-three dollars. Capt. 
Lewis was fortunately on shore with tliis 
gold to purchase stores, when Captain 
Semmes steamed around the island ,and 
burned his ship. 1 will regard it as a 
forced contribution from Capt. Semmes, 
in the name of the immortal Lafayette, 
who loved our country and its Father, 
and I am most happy in being able to 
make so worthy a bestowal of it. 
" Yours respectfully, 
[Signed.] "George F. Bartlett." 



Brought up $71,588 01 

March 23, Two " contrabands " 
by the hands of 
B. A. Nutt, Cam- 
bridge 5 00 

March 24, " A Slice from our 

Daily Bread" 5 00 

" From Berlin and 

Long wood 75 00 

" The Young Ladies 
Soldiers' Aid So- 
ciety of Nashua, 
remitted by Miss 
Kate M.Thayer.. 50 00 

" Members of the 
Boston Corn Ex- 
change 1130 00 

" Geo. F. Hoar, Wor- 
cester 50 00 

March 25, Benj. Snow, Fitch- « 

burg 50 00 

" A few contributors 
in Stockbridge, 
received through 
Mr. Ferdinand 
Hoffman 50 00 

" First Congregational 
Ciiurch and Soci- 
ety of Calais, Me., 
by Kev. Mr. S. H. 
Keeler 100 00 

" Monument Church, 
South Deerfield, 
Mass., by Eev. 
David A. 'strong. 10 00 

" Proceeds of a morn- 
ing concert in 
Mt. Vernon Street 260 00 

" Citizens of Barn- 
stable, — an addi- 
tional contribu- 
tion, through tiieir 
Selectmen 54 50 

" Arthur Wilkinson. . 100 00 
William Phillips & 

Son, New Bedford 75 00 
Mrs. Chs. K. Cobb.. 50 00 

" L. C. & E., Charles- 
town 30 00 

" Collection made in 
Rev. Dr. James 
W. Thompson's 
Church, at Jamai- 
ca Plain 506 44 

" *Collection made in 



Carried over $74,188 95 

* The donation from Chelsea was ac- 
companied by the following letter: — 
" Chelsea, March 25, 1864. 
" Dear Sir, — We have been very much 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



89 



Brought over $74,188 95 

Clielsea by three 

school-girls 45 00 

March 26, Hon. Joseph Grin- 

nell, New Bedford 100 00 

H. C 5 00 

" First Church in Box- 
ford, by W. C. 

Kimball 107 25 

Alex. Strong & Co. 100 00 
Stone & Downer.... 100 00 
" Marlborough, col- 
lected by liev. G. 

N. Anthony 304 65 

M. H. G 5 00 

" Anonymous 1 00 

" H. A. A., in Memo- 

riam, NewBedford 10 00 
The Pli3-sician's 
fourth week's sub- 
scription 10 00 

" Proceeds of Second 
Readings by Mr. 
Siddons and Miss 

Cameron 75 00 

" H. K. F., Charles- 
town 25 00 

" R. M. Mason, re- 
mitted from Paris 200 00 
" Anonymous, in ad- 
dition to a former 
donation of $200.. 100 00 



Carried up ....$75,376 85 

interested in the patriotic people of East 
Tennessee, and not being able to aid them 
with money, we thought we perhaps 
might do so by devoting to them our 
leisure time, of which we had only our 
afternoons, as we are school-girls and 
have many lessons to learn. We have 
been from house to house in the little 
town of Chelsea, which is far from rich, 
with a subscription paper, asking from 
each person tlie small sum of ten or fifteen 
cents. Tlie enclosed is the result of our 
efforts. It might be a comforting thought 
to the suffering Tennesseeans if they 
could know how generous and interested 
even the poorest people have been in 
their cause. One poor eld woman gave 
all the money she had (seven cents) with 
the earnest wish that it was a great deal 
more, and that it might also do a little 



" Hoping that this mny bring half as 
much comfort to some hungry Tennes- 
seean as we have had pleasure in collect- 
ing it, we are, 

" Very Respectfully, 

" C. L. E. 
" M. S. E. 
" H. E. D." 



Brought up $75,376 85 

March 26, Hancock St. Church, 
Quincy, collected 
at a Prayer Meet- 
ing, by Rev. Mr. 

Thwing 26 15 

E. H 20 00 

M. P. Grant 30 00 

A sailor 5 00 

" Old North End 10 00 

» " Proceeds of a little 
girls' fair near Ply- 
mouth Rock, re- 
mitted by B. W. 

Watson 13 00 

" E. P. Tileston, Dor- 
chester 100 00 

Samuel Downer, do. 50 00 

Joseph Dix, do 25 00 

" Lothrop & Moseley, 

do 20 00 

" William W. Paige, 

do 10 00 

" Daniel B. Stedman 

& Co. do 20 00 

" John Preston, do.. . 10 00 
Wm. L. Clark, do.. 10 00 
" William B. Newbu- 
ry, do 10 00 

Robt. L. Living, do. 5 00 
" Edward Jarvis, M. 

D., do 5 00 

" Alex. B.Wheeler, do. 6 00 
" Palmers & Bachel- 

ders, 100 00 

Henry C. Rand, N. 

Cambridge 25 00 

" Collection taken in 
the Lawrence St. 
Congregational 
Ch., Lawrence, re- 
mitted by C. A. 

Colby 170 00 

" Collection taken in 
the Central Ch., 
Lynn, remitted by 
P. 0. Knapp,.... 132 03 
" From the ladies and 
gentlemen of the 
private theatricals 
in Chickering's 

Hall 732 00 

March 29, A friend 50 00 

" Collections in Stock- 
bridge, Massachu- 
setts, made by R. 

B. Craig Ill 00 

" Anonymous 8 00 

April 1, A Law Student at 
Cambridge, being 

Carried over $77,079 03 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



April 1, 



Brought over. . . $77,079 03 


one halt of all he 




has 


2 00 


E. P. H 


10 00 


Dr. Daniel Swan, 




Medtbrd, 


100 00 


The Misses Welles.. 


200 00 


Henry Edwards.. . . 


50 00 


Elijah Bardwell, 




Hadley 


5 00 


Frederic Clapp 


3 OO. 


S. H. H 


5 00 


Anonymous, Wor- 




cester 


3 00 


John Russell, Green- 




field 


100 00 


Anonymous 


1 00 


Avon Place, second 




donation 


20 00 


r. Peirce & Co 


100 00 


Mrs. Betsey S. Beal, 




Kingston 


10 00 


Congregational Ch. 




and Soc. at West 




Bovlston, by Rev. 




J. H. Pitts 


29 00 


Amount given at St. 




Paul's Church on 




Easter Sunday. . . 


50 00 


Abraham Barker. . . 


50 00 


" Acts 11th chapter. 




26tli and 27th 




verses " 


20 00 


Collection made in 




the Greenville Bap- 




tist Church and 




Society, by Rev. 




N. P. Cooke, 


44 56 


Central Cii., Lynn, 




additional 


10 00 


George A. Newell.. 


50 00 


Baptist Society in 




Royalston 


25 00 


Francis Chase, Roy- 




alston 


1 00 


General John S. Ty- 




ler 


50 00 


The Misses Baldwin, 




Dorchester 


60 00 


Master CliarlesL. B. 




Whitney, prize for 




excellence in dec- 




lamation, Spring- 




field, Mass 


3 00 


William A.Wheeler, 




Dorchester 


3 00 


Congregational Ch. 




and Soc. at Mat- 




tapoisett, Mass. . . 


42 32 


A firiend 


5 00 







Brought up $78,130 91 

April 1, H. B. Pearson ' 50 00 

" A Boston minister.. 25 00 

" Edward C. Jones, 

New Bedford .... 100 00 
" "A little more help " 40 00 
" Tlie following ofii- 
cers of the cus- 
toms in Boston, $5 
each, viz.: — R. C. 
Nichols, Wm. H. 
Gorham, N. H. 
Whitney, C. Jud- 
son, Jos. O. Cole, 
M. Eggleston, O. 
Nichols, P. F. Wil- 
liston, Henrv Bor- 
ing, C. C. Wood- 
man 50 00 

April 2, Collection at a meet- 
ing in Somerville 14 60 
A. M. H, "all she 

had " 1 00 

" Arthur Searle 30 00 

" Samuel Johnson, his 
second contribu- 
tion 100 00 

A. S., Salem 20 00 

" To fulfil the inten- 

tions of one lately 
deceased, Salem . . 10 00 
" From D. H. Rogan, 

Greenfield, Mass., 
being the contri- 
bution of an Kast 
Tennessee Refu- 
gee, and a few of 

his friends 12 00 

H 5 00 

" D. R. Greene, New 

Bedford 100 00 

S. R. M 50 00 

" Pupils in the Adams 
School at Dorches- 
ter 50 00 



Carried up $78,130 91 



April 4, 



1 00 



10 00 
2 00 



" Unknown " 

"A friend," with a 
poetical dedication 

Mrs. R. P., of Salem 

ThePhysician's fifth 
week's subscrip- 
tion 10 00 

1st Trinitarian Con- 
gregational Ch. at 
Maiden 35 00 

S 50 00 

A. A. T 30 00 

The officers of the 
20th Regiment of 
Mass. Volunteers, 



Carried over.... 178,926 51 



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91 



Brought over. . . .$78,926 51 
by tlie hands of 
Col. Francis W. 

Palfrey 125 00 

April 4, A Massachusetts 

family, now abroad 300 00 
John B. Tait, Dor- 
chester 20 00 

Wm. H. Bangs, do. 15 00 

Henry G. Denny,do. 10 00 

" Robert Johnson, do. 10 00 

Charles Hunt, do 10 00 

Thomas J. Allen, do. 10 00 
A.H.Stevens, do... 10 00 

E. &C.B.Minot,do. 5 00 
Jno. G. Wood, do.... 2 00 

" Enos How, do 1 00 

April 5, Three little sisters.. 3 00 

" Easter offering in the 

Church of the 
Disciples, Indiana 
Place, Boston.... 241 43 

" From Bernardstown, 

Mass., by Alman 
Newcomb, Esq. ... 90 00 

A friend 30 00 

Mrs.MariaF.Sayles 500 00 

" The Teachers and 
Scholars of the 
Unitarian Sabbath 
School, Glouces- 
ter, Mass 30 00 

" G. W. Mcssinger, 

Esq., being his sal- 
ary ibr the year as 
Treasurer of First 
Church, Boston.. 50 00 

" Saml. Frothingham, 

second donation . . 100 00 

" A friend in Stock- 
bridge, additional. 10 00 
April 6, G. H 10 00 

F. & A 12 00 

" A friend in Newton 

Centre 10 00 

" Second Parish Sab- 
bath School, Am- 
herst 20 00 

" Citizens of Auburn, 

Mass 73 25 

" Mrs. McBurney, 

Hoxbury 50 00 

" Collected by four 
little girls at Fal- 
mouth 15 45 

April 7, Congregational Par- 
ish in Southfield... 42 90 
*His Excellency, J. 
L. Motley, Jr., 

Carried up. .. .$80,732 54 
* Jlr. Motley, iu the letter of 22d of 



Brought up $80,732 54 

Minister of the 
United States at 

Vienna 200 00 

April 7, R., from Providence, 

R.I 100 00 

M. A. R., 3 00 

" No Shirk " 5 00 

Frederick Taber, . . 5 00 

H. J. R 20 00 

" Collection at the 
Church in Hous- 
atonic, Mass., by 
Rev. Josiah Brew- 
er, Pastor 16 00 

" Collection in the 

Parish of St. An- 
drews, Hanover, 
by Rev. Samuel 
Cutler, Rector ... 46 00 
" A Party Hack " . . 1 50 

Federalist 10 00 

April 8, A friend in Kings- 
ton, Mass 20 00 

" Mrs. A., Worcester, 

Mass 6 00 

" Proceeds of a mas- 
querade in Cam- 
bridge 150 00 

" F., Portsmouth, N. 

H 20 00 

P.P., Beverly, Mass. 20 00 
April 9, From a " River 

town" 10 00 

C 10 00 

" Congregational So- 
ciety of Milford, 
by Rev. A. A. Ells- 
worth, Pastor 45 00 

L 150 00 

" Rev. K. M. Hodges, 

Cambridge 100 00 

" Proceeds of an enter- 

tainment given un- 
earned over . . . .$81,670 04 

March, containing his liberal remittance, 
writes : — 

" I enclose a check for $200, and I wish 
that it was in my power to send a much 
larger sum. When, in after days, the 
history of this unexampled insurrection 
against Liberty comes to be written, there 
will be few episodes more moving or 
more instructive than the record of those 
Tennesseeans who have so long sustained 
the Republic and its principles, amid 
such trial and at such sacrifices. Cer- 
tainly it is no charity on our part to assist 
them, but a sacred duty, which I am 
sure that all will fulfil in proportion to 
their means."' 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Brought over $81,670 04 

der tlie auspices of 
the Teachers' As- 
sociation in Music 
Hall, on the 24th 

March 135 GO 

April 9, Proceeds of a Juve- 
nile Concert at 
Williams Hall.... 12 00 
"Roxbury " 2 00 

" " Impecuniosus," 

Baltimore 5 00 

" Hon. Icliabod Good- 
win of Portsmouth, 
from the estate of 
the late Mrs. Char- 
lotte Kice of that 
city, and in pre- 
sumed accordance 
with what would 
liave been her 
wishes 500 00 

" Teachers and Pupils 

of tlie Unitarian 
Sunday School at 

Exeter, N. H 66 00 

April 11, Joseph Lovejoy 25 00 

" C. P. Emmons, 

Needham 25 00 

" A class in the Chest- 
nut-street Congre- 
gational Sabbath 
School at Chel- 
sea 25 00 

" W., Charlestown... 1 00 

" Proceeils of a fair 
got up for the chil- 
dren in East Ten- 
nessee by eight 
little girls at Ply- 
mouth, VIZ. : — An- 
na Y. Stoddard, 
Mary Hodge, Liz- 
zie C. Faulkner, 
Abby W. Davis, 
Joanna W. Davis, 
NellieClark,Laura 
y. Loring, Edith 
A. Andrews 80 00 

" Susan D. Rogers. .. 25 00 
April 12, G. A. Bethune 50 00 

" Somerset Street 10 00 

" " Mariner," Newbu- 

ryport 5 00 

" Missionary Ch. in 
Lanesville, Glou- 
cester, Mass., by 
Rev. Thomas Mo- 
rong 20 00 



Carried up $82,656 04 



April 
April 



April 



Brought up $82,656 04 

12, Mrs. Henry Cutter, 

Winchester 10 00 

13, Anonymous, Yar- 
mouth 10 00 

Miss S. B. Morton, 
Milton Hill 50 00 

Mrs. N. F. Safford, 
Milton Hill 25 00 

Hon. Samuel H. 
Dale, Mayor of 
Bangor 25 00 

Friends of East Ten- 
essee in Nantucket 80 GO 

A Collection on Fast 
Day at a Union 
meeting of the 
liaptist and Ortho- 
dox churches in 
Littleton 32 06 

Isaac H. Gitford, 

North Dartmouth 50 00 

Lawrence St. Con- 
gregational Ch., 
Lawrence, addi- 
tional 2 00 

A friend, in Chelsea 100 GO 

Proceeds of two am- 
ateur concerts at 
Salem, given on 
the 4th and 11th 
instant, under the 
auspices of Mr. 
Manuel FenoUosa 650 00 
14, " From one who 
keeps his money 
as long as his con- 
science will let 
him " 5 00 

L. and C, two little 
boys. Proceeds 
of their fair in 
Hancock Street... 5 10 

Bessie L 2 GO 

Pupils and teacher 
of the Eliot Sab- 
bath School, New- 
ton, Mass 132 GO 

^Collection made in 
the Sunday School 
of the EliotChurch, 
Newton, Mass., re- 



Carried over 



33,784 20 



* Mr. Bacon, in transmitting the hand- 
some donation of the Eliot Sunday School 
writes, "'We were stimulated to make 
our collection as large as possible by the 
liberal offer of our Sabbath School teach- 
er to double whatever sum might be con- 
tributed by the school. The result was a 
contribution of $132." 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



93 



Brought over. . . .$83,784 20 
raitted, with the 
prccedinu;, by Mr. 
George W. Bacon 127 50 

April 14, " Alpine " 10 00 

" Ladies' Aid Society, 

South Danvers... 50 00 

South Church, do. 52 33 

" Baptist do. do. 5 55 

Methodist do. do. 20 00 

" Unitarian do. do. 27 10 

April 15, Anonymous 10 00 

W., Northampton.. 20 00 

C 5 00 

S 5 00 

" Second Cong. Soc. 
in Nantuclvet, by 
Kev. J. K. Karcher 88 03 
" Mass. Char. Fire So- 
ciety 800 00 

Anonymous 20 00 

C. S 5 00 

" S. H. Bourne, Ken- 

nebunk 5 00 

Cora 25 00 

April 16, Mrs. Mary Morton, 

Milton Hill 50 00 

Mrs. M. H. M. 

Thompson 25 00 

" C. F. W 5 00 

Blodget& White... 100 00 
" Thomas W. May- 

hew, Westport 

Point 10 00 

" Proceeds of tab- 

leaux at Jamaica 
Plains, by the 
hands of Miss 

Horton 334 75 

April 18, A dressmaker 5 00 

T. C 10 00 

" J., being net amount 

of three days' work 10 00 
" S. Blackinton, North 

Adams 100 00 

S. Johnson, do 50 00 

S. W. Bray ton, do. 50 00 
" Mrs. Mary B. Park- 
man 5 00 

" M., second donation 100 00 

" Chiefly raised by con- 

tributions in the 
several churciies 
of Milbury, re- 
mitted by D. At- 

wood 150 00 

" Turner Sargent, in 
addition to a form- 
er donation of the 
same amount 100 00 

Carried up $85,664 46 



Brought up.. $85,664 46 
April 18, Harry and Charlie.. 5 00 

" The officers and 
crew of the Unit- 
ed States ship Rat- 
tler, enclosed in 
a letter from Dr. 
Scollay Parker, A. 
A. Surgeon, dated 
oft' Hurricane Isl- 
and, Mississippi 
Kiver, 25tli March, 
1864 127 00 

" T. Jefferson Cool- 

idge 200 00 

April 19, A Farmer of North 

Perrv, Me 5 00 

C. D. Kellogg 20 00 

M. H., Rollinsford, 
N. H 25 00 

" Citizens of Tyngs- 

borough 23 00 

" Collection made by 

three little girls 
in Concord, Mass. 50 00 

" Citizens of Dennis, 
being the proceeds 
of an exhibition 
held there 37 00 

" Anonymous 5 00 

" Mrs. Henry Grew, a 

second donation of 
the same amount. 100 00 

" Collection in the 
church of the Rev. 
Dr. Hill in Wor- 
cester, in addition 
to the very liberal 
contributions of 
individuals of the 
Society heretofore 
announced 222 00 

" M., East Cambridge 10 00 
April 20, First Congregation- 
al Church in New 
Marlboro', from 
Rev. C. C. Painter 40 00 
X. Y. Z 1 00 

" Universalist Church 

in Shirley Village, 
by Rev. C. B. 

Lombard 41 00 

*Anonymous 500 00 

Carried over ..$87,075 46 

* This munificent donation was enclos- 
ed in a note in which the writer says: — 

":I have stood in the fight mnny a day 
by tlie side of those E:ist Tennesseeans, 
but I see there are yet other ways of do- 
ing-, one's duty towards them; so I add 
my contribution to their aid." 



94 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Brought over $87,075 46 

April 21, Elias Keith, Rowe, 

Mass 6 00 

" S. P. Brown, Dover, 

Me 100 00 

" A few Citizens of 
York, Me., remit- 
ted bv Mr. George 
Moody 45 00 

" Proceeds of a little 
girls' fair in Dor- 
chester last week : 
Fanny Downes, 
Anna Morse, Ber- 
tha Newbury, Liz- 
zie Peirce, Lila 
Howard, and Em- 
ma Nazro, Com- 
mittee 200 45 

April 22, "A Vermont Soldier 

on the Potomac ". 1 15 

" A family on Dana 

Hill, Cambridge.. 15 00 

" E. P. N., Ports- 
mouth, N. H 25 00 

" Proceeds of a young 

ladies' fair, held at 
No. 21 Boylston 

Place 1000 00 

April 23, Citizens of Ipswich.. 385 00 
Benjamui F. Clarke, 

Winchendon 5 00 

" A few ladies in Bel- 

mont, — collected 
by Miss Mack .... 57 00 

" Collection taken in 
Kev. Joshua Coit's 
Church at Brook- 
field, Mass 30 00 

" An American gen- 

tleman in Italy. .. 200 00 

" Aaron Roberts, Do- 
ver, N. H 10 00 

W. J. H 2 00 

" A few individuals 
in Nortii Parish, 
Portsmouth 150 00 

" " Dickens Dramatic 

Club," Cambridge 103 00 
April 24, From a friend, by 

J. J. M 50 00 

" First Baptist Church 
in Dorchester, by 
Kev. Mr. Barrows 17 50 
C. & J. A 10 00 

" "In Menioriam," F. 

C. L. and F. S. M. 40 00 
F. A. E..... 30 00 

" Members of the M. 

E. Church in Dor- 



Carried up $89,557 56 



Brought up $89,557 56 

cliester, by Rev. 

C.S.Rogers 35 00 

April 24, Collection in the 
Congregational 
Cliurcli at South 
Reading 72 18 

" Social gathering at do. 46 00 
Collection in the 
Unitarian Church 
in Nortli Chelsea, 
Rev. W. 0. xMose- 
ley, Pastor 34 00 

" Collection at the 

Crombie Street 
Church and Soci- 
ety at Salem, by 
Henry J. Pratt... 73 47 

" Penny contributions 
of the JMt. Vernon 
Sabbath School for 
one montli, by 
Warren L. Tower, 
Treasurer 25 00 

" Lafayette Burr, — 

formerly a resi- 
dent at the South 50 00 

" Miss Wales, — in 
addition to a pre- 
vious contribution 
of S300, before re- 
ported 200 00 

April 2G, Collection taken at 
the Church of the 
Unity at Worces- 
ter, Rev. Mr. Ship- 
pen, Pastor, 158 00 

" Collection taken at 

the Congregation- 
al Church at Wen- 
ham, Rev. J. S. 
Sewall, Pastor. . . 29 00 

" Unitarian Sunday 
School at Quincy, 
L. P. Forbush, 
Superintendent... 252 10 
April 27, Chas. K. Cobb, in 
addition to two for- 
mer donations of 
same amount 50 00 

" Collected in New 

Bedford,by Master 
Willie Howland, 
who was prevent- 
ed from getting 
more b}' illness.. 3 50 

" Collection at the 
Dorchester Village 
Church, Rev. Mr. 
Rich, Pastor 53 25 

Carried over... $90,639 01 



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Brought over. . . .$90,639 01 
April 27, Collection at the 
Church of the 
Tliird Religious 
Society of Dor- 
chester, Rev. I. 
J. Mumford, Pas- 
tor 100 00 

" * Collection taken at 
the First Church, 
Dorchester, Rev. 
Mr. Hall, Pastor.. 272 50 
" Collection at the 
First Independent 
Methodist Church, 
Dorchester, Rev. 
Mr. Pettee, Pastor 13 35 
" Cyrus Brewer, Dor- 
chester 10 00 

" Miss M. H. Hooper, 

Dorchester 5 00 

J. H. B. Lang, Dor- 
chester 20 00 

" " A friend " by J. 

J. M., Dorchester 20 00 

" C. P. Lewis, do. 15 00 

Wm. Hendrv, do: 10 00 

D. C. Holden, do. 5 00 

G. T. Stoddard, do. 2 00 

April 28, Anonymous, from 

Worcester 2 00 

" Profit on 700 shares 

Sutton Copper Co. 10 00 

Carried up $91,123 86 

* Tiie contributions from Dorchester 
were transmitted in the following noble 
letter from the Selectmen : — 

DoKCHESTER, April 27, 1864. 

" Dear Sir, — The Committee appoint- 
ed by the Selectmen of Dorchester, in ac- 
cordance with your published i^ug^estions, 
to obtain in that town contributions for 
the aid of the loyid sufferers in East Ten- 
nessee, feel that in clo-iing their duties 
they ought to report briefly to yourself. 

" They have made personal application 
to a large number in the town best able 
to give such charities, many of whom 
have given with characteristic liberality; 
and tliey have caused contributions to be 
taken up in several of the churches. The 
amount thus given by the citizens of Dor- 
chester, either through this Committee or 
otherwise, they find to be about three 
thousand dollars. And while they would 
gladly have made this amount larger, 
they still feel that, if other towns would 
give in like proportion, an amount will be 
reached much larger than that originally 
asked from the State. 

" Very respectfully, 

" For the Committee, 
[Signed] " Samuel Athekton, Treas." 



Brought up $91,123 86 

April 28, Edward Holbrook. . 20 00 

Myrtle Street 5 00 

" * John W. Peirce, 

jr., Tremont, Me.. 25 00 

Miss C. R. V 2 00 

" Collection in the 

North Congrega- 
tional Church and 
Society at Haver- 
hill, remitted hy 
Mr. Samuel White 162 75 
April 29, Jas. L. Mills & Son. 25 00 

Mrs. C. R. V 2 00 

" Collection in North 
Congregational 
Church in Haver- 
hill 162 50 

April 30, E. A. H., Roxbury. . 15 00 
" Anonymous, in ad- 

dition to a larger 

donation 2 50 

" Collection by the 

youngest class at 
M'Ue de Bonne- 
ville's school for 
young ladies, 54 
Chestnut Street.. 25 00 

May 2, A. B 4 00 

" Anonymous, a third 

c(mtribution 30 00 

" A contribution from 

Carried over $91,604 61 

* The contribution of Master Peirce, a 
lad of twelve, was remitted in the fol- 
lowing letter : — 

" S. W. Harbor, Tremont, Me., 
April 5, 1864. 
"Dear Sir, — Enclosed please find 
twenty-five dollars, which 1 have collect- 
ed for the suffering East Tennesseeans. 
I had read and heard so mUch of the suf- 
ferings of these loyal people, that I wish- 
.ed very much to do something for them. 
1 said to my mother I will give them my 
dollar, all my vioney. She said that will 
do very little good alone, but I might go 
round and ask my young friends to give 
for this noble cause. I was pleased to do 
so, and have collected this sum. I found 
both old and young ready to give me 
something ; very few refused. In 07ie 
family I got almost five dollars. I know 
this is a small sum compared with the 
thousands you are receiving, but if some 
little boy in each town in this State would 
go round among his friends, the sums 
thus collected all put together would 
make thousands of dollars, and oh! how 
much suffering would be relieved. 

" KespectfuUv vours, 
[Signed] " Jko. "W. Peirce, Jr." 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Brought over. . . .$91,604 61 
the citizens of 
West Ainesbury, 
transmitted by W. 
J. IJoardman, I). 
M.Tukesbury. and 
W. F. M. Hun- 
tington, Selectmen 
of Amesbury .... 161 00 
May 5, Trom the Central 
Church, Lynn, ad- 
ditional contribu- 
tion, from P. C. 
Knapp , . . 32 14 

" First Church in Rox- 

bury,Rev. Dr. Put- 
nam, remitted by 
Mr. S. C. Thwing 933 00 

North End 1 00 

A Union Boy 2 00 

" The proceeds of a 
little girls' fair 
in West Cedar St. 
by Misses Maria 
Decatur, Grace 
Kellogg, and Susie 
Spring 50 65 

" A part of the " Pen- 
ny Contribution " 
of tlie Mather Sab- 
bath School of Ja- 
maica Plain, Ibr- 
warded by the Su- 
perintendent, in ac- 
cordance with the 
unanimous wish 
of the members of 
the school 10 00 

" Anonymous 25 00 

May 6, * Lydia S. Gale, a 
second donation 

of 100 00 

May 7, Parlor juggling by 
Ellison & Cool- 
idge 2 25 

" * A second contribu- 
tion of fifty dol- 
lars from "A Graft 
of the Brokers' 
Board." 50 00 

Carried up ...$92,971 65 

* The generous donation of Jliss Lydia 
S. Gale was transmitted in the following 
letter : — 

Boston, 6th May, 18G4. 

ii Sir — Being very desirous that the 
subscription for East Tennessee should 
amount to one hundred thou-and dollars, 
I again enclose one hundred dollars to- 
ward the much wisheJ-for consumma- 
tion." 



Brought up $92,971 65 

May 7, The North Baptist 
Society in Dor- 
chester, by the 
hand of the Pastor, 
Rev. Mr. Crane.. 15 00 

" Messrs. Nickerson & 

Co 100 00 

May 10, Congregational Ch. 
and Society of 
Buckland, for- 
warded by C. 
Lord 32 10 

" Congregational So- 

ciety at Acton, 
Rev. Geo. W. 
Coleman, Pastor. 7 00 

" Anon\'mous contri- 
bution at St. Paul's 
Church on Sun- 
day last 100 00 

" Balance of a sum 
contributed by 
three individuals 
to defray expenses 
on a case of caps, 
vests, &c., pre- 
pared by ladies of 
Beverly, and sent 
by Miss Hannah 
C. Adams 6 75 

« " Treasurer," — Bal- 

ance of a fund orig- 
inally contributed 
for war purposes. 38 22 

" t Miss Anne Wig- 

glesworth, a sec- 
ond donation of. . . 100 00 

Carried over... $93,370 72 

* The contributor who signs himself 
" A Graft of the Broker's Board," writes: 

" 1 feel that JIassachusetts and the 
whole country are doing too little for 
those noble and suffering Patriots of East 
Tennessee. It makes one's blood run 
cold to hear of what they have to endure. 
Captain \V. W. Dean's published letter is 
sufficient to urge us on to give more re- 
lief. Herewith enclosed is another fifty 
from " A Graft of the Broker's Board." 

t Miss Wigglesworth's second donation 
was enclosed in the fohowing note: — 

" Will I\Ir. Everett be kind enough to 
accept the enclosed, that it may lend its 
little aid in filling the vacuum which ex- 
ists between the present receipts and the 
hundred thousand dollars, which we must 
send from An\s«achusetts. 

" I have not waited till this last moment 
before sending my mite, as my first was 
sent in February. But I cannot sit still 
and merely wish that our contributions 



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97 



Brouo:ht over. . . .$93,370 72 
May 10, Miss Mary Wiggles- 
worth 100 00 

May 11, Mr. Emmanuel, an 
attache of the Con- 
sul-General's oflSce 
at Constantinople.. 20 00 
" Mrs. Albert W. Paine, 

Bangor, Me 10 00 

E. D. Everett 20 00 

" A lady in Dedham, 

" her mite," 50 00 

" George Eliot Eich- 

ardson 1 00 

" Four Cambridge boys 2 00 
" A " Boston boy," (one 
of the first contri- 
butors to this fund) 

third donation 10 00 

May 12, The earnings of a lit- 
tle boy 1 00 

" Citizens of Dana, 
Mass., remitted by 
N. L. Johnson, 
chairman of the 

Selectmen 48 65 

" Messrs. Faxon, Elms 

& Co 50 00 

Mrs. Peter C. Brooks 200 00 
May 13, * J. S. W., one hun- 
dred dollars in gold 170 00 
" t "Dorchester, 1791," 
Newton, a second 

donation of 200 00 

May 14, Proceeds of an exhi- 
bition of tableaux, 
by four boys ; Allen 
R. Tilden, Vincent 
Y. Bowditch, J. O. 

Carried up.... $94,253 37 

should reach the sum of one hundred 
thousand. I must make mj' wish — and 
hope that others will do the same — as- 
sume a practical form. 

" Very respectfully yours, 

" A. WlGGLESWOKTH. 

" 1 Park Street, May 9, 1864." 
* J. S. W. writes: — "1 enclose you 
my contribution for the sufferers in East 
Tennessee. I had hoped, belbie this, to 
congratulate you on a completion of the 
$100,000. . .' . . By your letter of j-es- 
terday from Dr. Humes, it appears that 
great destitution still prevails. It is to be 
hoped that the sum desired from Massa- 
chusetts will soon be made up." 

t "Dorchester, 1791," writes from New- 
ton as follows: — " The touching evidences 
we have had of the extreme destitution 
and suffering of our friends in East Ten- 
nessee would seem to demand a division 
of even the 'crust.' " 

9 



Brought up $94,253 37 

S. Huntington and 
Arthur J. Putnam. 14 30 

May 14, Edwin Howland 100 00 

" Collection taken in 
the Church of Rev. 
Samuel Brooks at 
South Framingham 39 50 

J. Kuhn 25 00 

" Anonymous 2 00 

B. H 1 00 

M 3 00 

" A little boy in Wo- 

burn 1 20 

" Henry Lyon, M. D., 

Charlestown 50 00 

" t Anonymous, for- 
merly a resident in 

Knoxville 50 00 

May 16, Col. Samuel Swett, 
a second contribu- 
tion 30 00 

" A young lady in 

Summer Street 10 00 

" Anonymous 10 00 

" A lady in -Kingston, 

Mass 10 00 

" Thos. Wigglesworth, 
— a second dona- 
tion of. 100 00 

May 17, From a member of 

the Legislature 25 00 

" Mrs. A. L. Wales, a 

second donation of. 50 00 
May 18, Amos P. Tapley, 

Lynn 100 00 

" Miss Eliza Whitwell, 

Dorchester 100 00 

" I. G. R 50 00 

May 19, What the young En- 

» sign left for the 

loyal Tennesseeans 

when he went to 

serve his country, 

byH. S. W 5 00 

" Isaiah Chase, West 

Harwich 5 00 

May 21, A young lady 40 00 

" Quincy Sun. School, 

additional 2 00 

May 23, Anonymous 5 00 

" Rev. Alex. Proudfit, 
Chaplain U. S. A., 

Carried over $95,031 37 

* The contributor who formerly resid- 
ed in Knoxville writes: — " Fifty dollars 
from one wlio, in days of yore, was a short 
sojourner about Knoxville, and whose 
then estimate of East Tennesscans has 
been borne out and tested." 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Brought over. . . $95,081 37 




Brought up ... . $97,726 83 


Portsm'th Grove, 






the Pastor, Rev. 




R. I 


15 00 




Mr. Noble 


18 00 


May 23, Sam'l Rodman, New 




May 30 


Anonymous, second 




Bedford 


100 00 




contribution 


40 00 


" " An Old-Fashioned 




^^ 


Methodist Society at 




Man" 


50 00 




Maiden Centre, by 




May 26, H. Bromfield Pear- 






Rev. Mr. Barnes, 




son, a second dona- 






the Pastor 


50 50 


tion 


50 00 


<( 


Anonymous gift for 




" Anonymous 


2 00 




East Tennesscans 


100 00 


" Proceeds of tableaux 




May 31 


Addditional from the 




by " Ten young la- 






Methodist Society 




dies of Mr. Shack- 






at Maiden Centre, 




ford's School,". . . 


25 00 




by Rev. Mr. Barnes 


20 00 


" The Amesbury Mills 




" 


Proceeds of a chil- 




Congregational So- 






dren's fair, held 




ciety 


37 46 




by Georgiana Hay- 




May 28, George Wilson, New- 






ward, Ellen Hay- 




Bedford 


10 00 




ward and Geo. R. 




" William Gray, a sec- 






R. Rivers, at the 




ond donation of. . . 


500 00 




house of Dr. Hay- 




0. W. Holmes, M.U. 


100 00 




ward, Temple 




" Net proceeds of a 






Place 


190 00 


musical entertain- 




« 


A mite for the poor 




ment at Chicker- 






suiferors in East 




ing's Hall, the use 






Tennessee, from a 




of which was giv- 






poor female 


5 00 


en by the Messrs. 




« 


Octavius Pickering, 




C.'s gratuitously 1162 00 




a second donation . 


30 00 


W. H. H. Newman 


50 00 


" 


" One of the Com- 




G. F. H 


5 00 




mittee," (a second 




" Edward Warren, M. 






donation) 


111 00 


D., Newton Lower 




June 1, 


Proceeds of a little 




Falls, (second don- 






child's fair in West 




ation) 


20 00 




Chester Park 


7 00 


" Four school girls at 




" 


Mrs. J. Mason War- 




New Bedford 


7 00 




ren 


100 00 


" Three boys at Wal- 


Mrs. Charles G. Lur- 




pole, (Arthur 






ing, (a second do- 




Cram, George B; 






nation) 


100 00 


Clark, James B. 




June 2, 


The proceeds of a 




Lewis,) " the prof- 






gold chain 


20 00 


its of a small store 




" 


Evelyn, of Norris- 




and picking dan- 






town, on a visit to 




delions " in the 






Boston 


5 00 


holidays 


5 00 


" 


Collection at a meet- 




" Proceeds of a chil- 






ing of the Univer- 




dren's fair, held at 






salist Society at 




the house of Wil- 






South Danvers. . 


33 00 


liam Gray, Esq., 




June 2, 


Friend X., by the 




by Ellen Gray, 






hand of S. E. Sew- 




Anna Jackson, and 






all, Esq., (a second 




Georgiana Eaton.. 


500 00 




donation) 


100 00 


May 30, One day's pay of a 




" 


A lady of Ho.\bury 


1 00 


Navy Yard employe 


3 00 


« 


A member of the 




" Anonymous, Dor- 






State Legislature, 




chester 


4 00 




who voted against 




" Congregational So- 






the additional com- 




ciety at Truro, by 






pensation, (a sec- 






726 83 




ond donation) .... 


25 00, 


Carried up $97, 


Carried over $98,682 33 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



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Brought over $98,682 33 

J'lne 2, Hon. S. L. Crocker, 

Taunton 100 00 

" Anonymous 131 66 

" 4, Proceeds of a cliil- 
dren's fair at Dr. 
Talbot's,31 Mount 
Vernon Street, on 
Wednesday last . . 1000 00 

" East Tennessee, 

anonymous 10 00 

" Miss "Martha B. 
Waite, remitted 
by Hon. George B. 
Upton 100 00 

" George W. Wales, a 

second donation . . 100 00 
Mrs. B. C. C. Par- 
ker, West Newton 10 00 

The following sums remitted by his 
Honor Jabez C. Knight, Mayor of 
Providence, R. I., viz : — 

June 6, Charles Sherry, Jr., 

Bristol, R. 1 100 00 

" Ladies' Relief Asso- 

ciation, 5th Ward, 

Providence 100 00 

" Joseph A. Barker . . 25 00 

S. G. Mason 20 00 

Rev. Dr. Wayland. 25 00 
" Charles E. Carpen- 
ter 25 00 

Amos D. Smith.... 100 00 

" Anonymous 10 00 

" Several small sums 
from Olney Ar- 
nold, Pawtucket, 
R. 1 31 00 



" Willy A. Stevens, 

Cambridgeport, 
" collected from 
little playfellows 
and friends ". . . . 10 00 

June 7, From the Congre- 
gational Church 
and Society in 

Hollis, N. H 56 50 

H. 0. H 37 98 

June 10, Proceeds of a Con- 
cert given in the 
Music Hall on the 
4th instant, under 
the auspices of 
Mrs. Eastburn ... 302 25 
" P. B., by the hand of 

J.J.May 10 00 

Carried up ....$100,986 72 



Brought up $100,980 72 

June 10, An aged lady wlio 
withholds her 

name, a twenty 
dollar gold piece. . 39 00 
" Proceeds of a collec- 

tion at the Trini- 
tarian Church at 
New Bedford, of 
which Rev. W. 
Craig is pastor.. . . 150 00 

June 13, Ladies Benevolent 
Society at North 
Andover 10 00 

June 20, Miss Ira E. Loring, 

a second donation 100 00 
" From Misses Mary 
W.Gannett, Sarah 
M. Bond, & Grace 
T. Etheridge, the 
proceeds of a chil- 
dren's fair 41 25 

June 22, Proceeds of an em- 
blematic and dra- 
matic entertain- 
ment in Chicker- 
ing's Hall 116 00 

June 29, Proceeds of a chil- 
dren's fair, held 
at the house of 
Jolin Lowell, Esq., 
Chestnut Hill, 
Newton 386 00 

July 7, From S. D., by the 
hand of Rev. Ed- 
mund F. Hafter. . 25 00 

July 10, W. W. W., Salem. . 8 00 

July 13, Small balance of one 
of the children's 
fairs 5 00 

July 26, First Congregational 
Church and Soci- 
ety in Yorke, Me. 21 45 

Aug. 6, Attleboro' ($128 50) 
and Wrentham 
($41 00) by the 
hands of Mr. H. 
Rice 169 50 

Ang. 11, Additional from the 
children's fair, at 
Dr. Talbot's 4 00 

Aug. 24, D. B. Check, Dan- 
ville, Kv 6 00 

Sept. 17, Capt. S. D. Trench- 

ard, U. S. N 20 00 

Sept. 21, Miss Jane Bachelor, 

Northbridge Centre 1 00 

Oct. 26, Proceeds of a fair at 

109 Pinkney St. . . 92 16 

Total ,..$102,180 08 



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